We are almost ready to be assigned a social worker to do our home study interviews! I'm really not nervous about the interviews. I know that we have a great family and can offer a wonderful life to a child and I'm looking forward to it.
Both Nathan and I have finished our online course. We had thought we'd be taking it together but we had to each do the class separately so that ended up working better for our schedules.
We had our first conference call with our Family Coordinator. The conversation went really well. She seems both knowledgeable and eager to help. I love that you can tell our agency is Christian. It's nice to receive encouraging emails on a weekly basis filled with scriptures and to have workers saying they're praying for us. :)
Our kids both had their physicals done. Weston's was easy because of his age, but Addison had to have the blood work done. That was a sad adventure but thank goodness it's over!
In the coming weeks we will be working on tackling the lists of papers and requirements to submit in our Dossier.
Thank you all for your continued support and prayers!!
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Friday, November 4, 2011
Deep Breaths of Peace
I opened up the Home Study packet while I was alone. Mistake number one. I should have waited for Nathan because I started to stress. There is so much involved! Then yesterday we were assigned our Family Coordinator with America World. She will be assisting us throughout this whole process. In her long email she attached 13 documents. I didn't even open them. I just forwarded it to Nathan so he could print them all off because we don't have a printer at home. When he got home I asked if he was able to do that and he replied, "Yes and the 1st one is 37 pages by itself." I started to worry. Second mistake.
Remember how I said I needed to breath in deep breaths of peace?? Well I had forgotten. I started to worry and stress because we have a lot to do with the home study before we actually get assigned a social worker. All of the paperwork, including the 13 documents sent by our coordinator, are time sensitive. My worry wasn't about if we could do it, but will be able to read over all the documents by the end of the week together as she suggested and will we find the time to actually start getting all of the things done? (Oh and did I mention the online course we have to take starting now?) Once you start you have to "keep the ball rolling" and that is hard to do with an ever changing schedule.
But today I took in those Deep Breaths of Peace. God has called us to this and despite Nathan's super busy schedule, we will make this work!! I'm ready to take this on and start knocking it out one by one. We are planning to start on it tomorrow. So if you come by our house this weekend...I promise we did not rob a paper factory...we are just taking some big steps toward bringing our son home!! (Am I the only one that tears up each time I read that? I can't wait!!) :)
Remember how I said I needed to breath in deep breaths of peace?? Well I had forgotten. I started to worry and stress because we have a lot to do with the home study before we actually get assigned a social worker. All of the paperwork, including the 13 documents sent by our coordinator, are time sensitive. My worry wasn't about if we could do it, but will be able to read over all the documents by the end of the week together as she suggested and will we find the time to actually start getting all of the things done? (Oh and did I mention the online course we have to take starting now?) Once you start you have to "keep the ball rolling" and that is hard to do with an ever changing schedule.
But today I took in those Deep Breaths of Peace. God has called us to this and despite Nathan's super busy schedule, we will make this work!! I'm ready to take this on and start knocking it out one by one. We are planning to start on it tomorrow. So if you come by our house this weekend...I promise we did not rob a paper factory...we are just taking some big steps toward bringing our son home!! (Am I the only one that tears up each time I read that? I can't wait!!) :)
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