Sunday, August 31, 2008

Fun with Friends

I wanted to practice adding pictures...so here is one of Ali with some friends from our neighborhood! Yay...it worked. (For those of you who don't know, I would normally have to ask Pete to help me, but tonight I did this all by myself.) We'll post more pics from our summer later.

Tuesday, Pete and I have the last step (hopefully) to being done with our psych profile. We have to take a personality inventory to make sure we're normal people. We met with the psychologist again on Friday, and he's adding to our report. We still haven't heard about our homestudy yet. We're hoping that will be done by the end of this new week, as well.

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

I'll Probably Laugh Later...

...when we encounter a bigger setback, which I'm sure we will, and I look back on our setbacks of the past 2 days and think how small they were. But right now I'm stressed and worried. It's so hard to remember that we really don't have control of our families (even if we feel like we do!). Thank goodness for my friends this afternoon for being an encouragement and a listening ear. Hanging out with them really made my day.

Our setbacks so that you can pray with us: Our homestudy needs a lot more detailed information and our psychological evaluation needs MOUNTAINS more information, including assessments. We submitted those two things to our placement agency, and they have informed us that Colombia is getting very particular and wants TONS of information on these two documents (more so than in the past). So, off to meet again with social worker and psychologist for the same information. Craziness and stress, especially since we thought we were good to go yesterday so we notarized all our other paperwork to be sent to be authenticated. I think we might just do that anyway and just wait for the homestudy and pysch eval to come later. We're at this point just hoping that none of our paperwork is 6 months old by the time it gets to Colombia b/c then we'll have to turn right and around and renew everything. Aaahhh.

Monday, August 25, 2008

Reluctance

So, I have been putting off posting because I REALLY wanted my next post to be titled "Done with our Homestudy." But, some good friends of mine threatened to kick me off their links on their blogs (horror of horror) if I didn't post soon. So here it is. We are NOT done with our homestudy, yet....but it is very close. Maybe by the end of this week we'll be able to put something up with the title I really want to see. By the way, my friends were just kidding about kicking me off their sites. They would never do that! :)

In reality, our homestudy rough draft is done and we are approved. We are just waiting to have the official copy in our hands. After that it is on to approval from the US & Colombia. We are almost done paper-chasing.

For prayer...after we have our official homestudy in our hands, we will be applying for various grants. Please pray that God provides for this adoption financially. We are trusting him and know beyond a doubt that he will provide, but it's still a little bit staggering to look at what we will need!