Nearly Done with Adoption Homestudy!

Hooray!!!

We're nearly done with the homestudy paperwork! We got Ken's NJ driver's record the other day, I found Ivan's latest vet records, and we attended the agenc'y transracial adoption seminar (it's the third one down--yes, we'd be taking the first two later on also!) We're considering a child of any ethnicity (or, more likely, combination of ethnic origins, this is the US!).

All we have to do now is finish our net worth statement, sign a few papers, and get our sanitary survey approval (the water people didn't send their test results to our Health Dept. sanitary-survey guy so I plan to fax them to him Monday).

Thursday we meet with Jennifer, who handles adoptive-parent training, and (I hope!) hand in the homestudy packet!

Then...

We wait for approval from the agency to be put in their domestic "baby pool."

Then "all" we have to do is take more classes (as mentioned above), do a scrapbook about our lives and what great parents we'd make for potential birthparents to read, and wait for a birth mom or birthparents to decide they want us to adopt their baby! Then of course there's getting the baby, the 30 days' wait to finalize the adoption in the courthouse for a child to be truly ours!

Almost makes 10 lunar cycles of pregnancy ending in labor and delivery look easy, doesn't it? Almost.