Home Study Visits are Finished!

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!