Things are going really well, really
smoothly! It's pretty incredible to have so much peace and comfort in
a time that has been billed as stressful. I know we aren't all the
way in it yet, and there might be stress coming, but so far we are
doing great!
We had our last home study visit last
Friday and it went really well. The social worker was very thorough
asking questions, but we never felt like we couldn't just be
ourselves. We have been forthcoming about everything and it seems to
be all good stuff for her. We had the opportunity to describe each
other, and therefore to listen to descriptions of each other from the
people we love the most. It was precious and touching to hear the
things Dan and the kids had to say about me and one another. I think
we have grown even closer as a family going through this process!
The social worker has to write up her
report, and then the serious paperwork begins. We have FBI
fingerprinting and background checks, sending official documents to
secretary of state to be authenticated, and many other annoying and
boring paperwork based tasks to complete.
Our garage sale is coming up in a month
and a half and we have a t-shirt sale fundraiser we are going to run.
Other than that, just our donation site:
https://purecharity.com/dorazioadoption
is our only fundraiser. We are a third of the way toward our goal,
which is incredible!!
At this point we are just waiting on
everyone else involved in the process. Please pray that all the
paperwork will be received quickly and smoothly without incident, and
that the officials are able to get to our documents in a timely
manner. The quicker our paperwork goes, the sooner we will have our
son home!! Thank you so much everyone for your support!
