We ordered certified copies of our birth certificates and marriage licenses on this past Tuesday. When we got home from Colorado Springs on Sunday both of our birth certificates had come in and the marriage license came in yesterday! So, check, check, and check!
Last night we got all registered and signed up with our online education. We hope to spend some time in the evenings and on Saturday getting it all done. Dan actually has a Satuday off in which we have absolutely nothing going on!
I also finished our Power of Attorney and our Post Adoption Commitment letter. Dan is going to write our application letter to MOWA (the ministry of women's affairs in Ethiopia) this afternoon.
We also sent an email to Al and Kristen to request our two recommendation letters that we need. We asked them to get them done in the next two weeks if at all humanly possible.
We are going to straighten the house up and take pictures of it as well as getting the passport photos done that are needed. We are trucking right along and it is exciting!
My goal is to get everything done that is humanly possible in the next two weeks before our Homestudy orientation and education workshop. That is one of the fun things of living in the boonies. It is a 6 1/2 hour trip to our homestudy agency. (Which we plan on using the drive to work some more on the 'With Eyes Wide Open' workbook that is required). Thankfully they have a social worker in Wichita, so that is only 3 1/2 hours away. Our workshop and orientation are on the 4th of April. They are nicely combining those two in the same trip for us. I am hoping then that we can totally focus on the homestudy and get it all done quickly.
My goal is to be done and getting our dossier to AGCI by the second week of May. Unfortunately our state does not let us do early processing on the I-600A, so we have to wait on that until the homestudy is totally done, but that is O.K.
On to the weekend!
This past weekend we went to Colorado Springs to celebrate Dan's grandma's 80th birthday. It's a 4 1/2 hour drive, so we started working on our 'With Eyes Wide Open' workbook. It was a good time. Here are a few highlight photos from the weekend.
Dan's Aunt Cathy, Aunt Carla, Nana (her birthday), and his mom Betty
This is Dan's sister Trista and Aunt Carla (and brother Jeremy off to the side)
Dan's brother Jeremy teaching his nephew Braden how to use chopsticks
All of us at the party!
We took our dog Mickey to Colorado Springs for the first time. He did great on the trip and was a huge hit there. This is Braden 'running' the dog after the party.
Dylon loved Mickey as well. Here he is getting kisses.
Sunday we had a big traditional Thanksgiving dinner. It was good. Here Al is cutting the turkey. And yes, he is doing it down on the washing machine.
Here is me, Nana, Dan, Aunt Cathy, and Mickey.
1 comment:
Thanks for posting on my blog. You are right there with us. We just finished up our online courses...they are good. Our Eyes Wide Open book is ready to be shipped to Christy (who is your caseworker?). We actually got our I-600A appt. earlier than anticipated. I'm not sure how...but it worked out right away. We go next week. In Illinois, we have additional steps of approval for our homestudy to go through, so it sounds like we are right with you. Did you request sibs? boy? girl? age? I hear the boys list is short...(keeping my fingers crossed).
Also...have you looked into grants. There is one that you can apply for that you don't have to have the homestudy complete. Shoot me and e-mail and we can chat. Some of the grants ask for 3 letters of recc. So, if you want to go for them, you could get started on an additional letter from someone and have it notarized.
Talk soon-Audrey
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