Approved!

Today we received our approval letter for our home study. Thank you, State of Illinois and The Department of Children and Family Services for deeming us suitable to raise children. We have good motives, strong values, and working fire and carbon monoxide alarms. We’re ready!

Thank you for asking us how the adoption process is going. We’re so glad to be able to say something other than, “we’re waiting for our home study to be approved.” Now we’re one step closer to meeting our child!

Next steps are:

– pray
– dossier (more paperwork/documents to send internationally)
– pray
– wait for a referral (“you’ve been paired with a child”)
– pray
– trip 1 to Ethiopia to meet out child, start in-country paperwork in court
– pray
– trip 2 to Ethiopia to bring him/her home
– pray
– learn how to be parents

This will continue to be a “hurry up and wait” situation. We’re (outwardly) keeping our cool for now.

Uncle Roger is going to be a great big brother. That’s him with our niece, Alayna.

And this is just my latte from Everybody’s Coffee this morning. You KNOW it’s going to be a good day when it starts with this.

 

Woohoo!