Some great news early in the game

Our last home study visit went great on Monday evening. I really like our social worker, I think we could end up great friends in the end. We turned in to her all of our paperwork that she needs from us. She is waiting on our background checks to come in and then can finish things up. Hopefully it will be done within a couple of weeks.

We got our contract and dossier package on Monday from our adoption agency. Of course I dive right in to it to get it done as fast as humanly possible. I gave our social worker the list and examples of what is needed from the home study agency on Monday night. I then worked on it until late trying to get a head start. On Tuesday I called our agency to ask some questions, while I was at it I asked how long for a referral. I was quoted a month or so for a boy. Oh my gosh. I sent our contract in on Tuesday and they should have it by the first of next. Which would put our referral in May, best case scenario. I have a ton to do before then. I am in gathering paperwork mode and plan to send our first package to the Secretary of State on Monday for the Apostille. We should have our psychologist and MD appoints done the first of the week along with our CPA paperwork. We had a friend offer to do the CPA portion of things. And a friend of a friend agreed to do the psychologist portion in a hurry for us.

Anyway the great part of all of this is that we should be traveling for trip one and two in the summer months and have our little guy home by fall. I am trying to stay grounded in case something happens and we start encountering delays. This is always very possible with international adoption especially Russia. I keep thinking I am misunderstanding things. I will be nervously asking again, however this is the second time they have told me. I just can't believe it.

I have to get a crib by the weekend so I can take pictures to send with our package. We also have to buy a camera to take pictures with. Our pastor and his wife are graciously donating a crib to us. I haven't seen it yet so I hope it will work in the nursery we have planned. The nursery will be firetrucks in case any of you had any doubt. Ok, I am off to do my real work so I have time to get my dossier done! I probably need to take a day off of work to work on it all. Maybe Monday that will give me the weekend to do what I can at home and Monday to hit the notary, maybe one of my darling friends. Great thing about being in the legal field.