Things are moving along for us in this long and tedious process. We have gathered all of our necessary paperwork for our home study, and have our home visit on Tuesday the 29th of June. We are so excited that this leg of our journey will be finished. The visit on Tuesday will be a lengthy one to say the least. Our social worker will arrive at noon, and visit with us and our three girls as well. This portion will take approximately 30 minutes. She will then spend the next three and a half to four hours meeting with the two of us. Not sure how much there will be to talk about, but apparently that's how much time she needs! I guess we will find out
Gathering all of our paperwork for the home study as well as for our dossier (the BIG packet that eventually gets sent to Ethiopia) has been fairly comical. Adam and I and all the girls went to our local Sheriff's station here in San Martin to get fingerprinted. To call it a station is a bit of a stretch though. Let me just say, mobile homes in a dirt parking lot. Yeah, we are pretty ghetto out here in hick town:)! Our next field trip took us to the Sheriff headquarters downtown. With kids in tow, we went down to get our clearance letters. Unfortunately, we had to get our letters notarized, so we had to hire a notary to come to the station. The girls did great and planted pretend banana trees outside on the grass. When we left though, I think they were wondering why we made such a big deal about the police station. It definitely did not live up to the fire station that they are accustomed to visiting.
We are really looking forward to the day that our baby joins our family. Please join with us as we pray for our child, that God would keep him/her safe, free of illness, and that emotionally and psychologically he/she would be ready to be loved by our family. We are reading books on attachment issues, and this seems to be the biggest hurdle that adoptive families face. We also would appreciate your prayers and support for our upcoming fundraiser. We will be selling our fresh produce at our farm on Saturday July 17th from 12:00-5:00.
