This weekend I finished my autobiography. Yay!!!! I rode with my mom and my grandma to my cousin Matthew's wedding this weekend (Congrats to Matt and Holly!!). On the way down I just buckled down and finished the last of the questions I had to answer. It is a great feeling to be finished, but I don't think Dave appreciates that I am finished and he is not. I guess I am being a bit of a nag, but I wanted to have these done two weeks ago. Dave has almost finished his, and as of 9:00 tonight he only had 10 questions left to answer (out of about 75)!! Thanks for your prayers.
The next step is that Karin (our adoption coordinator/counselor) has sent us copies of our referral letters so that we could pick out the ones to be sent to the Philippines. It shouldn't take us too long to finish picking those, we have some awesome referrals. After that, we will get our home study scheduled, and finish up the last piece of paperwork with Karin that needs to go in our dossier for the Philippines. We can see the light at the end of the tunnel, and it is getting exciting. It's feeling more real now, so we've been more excited to talk with people about it!
Lots of people have been asking what the next step is... After we have our home study, it will take about 3-6 more weeks to have the home study results finalized, and the rest of the paperwork ready to send in to the Philippines. After that, we wait to be approved for adoption by the Philippines. We are hearing that takes about 1 month. After that, we will wait for a match - which could take anywhere from 12-24+ months. We have no idea how long that will take. That's going to be the toughest part of this whole process. After we are matched, we will have to wait a couple of more months for the details to be finalized in the Philippines, then we will travel over there to pick up our child/ren!!! We will only need to be there for 7-10 days. Thanks for the thoughts and prayers, we really appreciate them!!!
The next step is that Karin (our adoption coordinator/counselor) has sent us copies of our referral letters so that we could pick out the ones to be sent to the Philippines. It shouldn't take us too long to finish picking those, we have some awesome referrals. After that, we will get our home study scheduled, and finish up the last piece of paperwork with Karin that needs to go in our dossier for the Philippines. We can see the light at the end of the tunnel, and it is getting exciting. It's feeling more real now, so we've been more excited to talk with people about it!
Lots of people have been asking what the next step is... After we have our home study, it will take about 3-6 more weeks to have the home study results finalized, and the rest of the paperwork ready to send in to the Philippines. After that, we wait to be approved for adoption by the Philippines. We are hearing that takes about 1 month. After that, we will wait for a match - which could take anywhere from 12-24+ months. We have no idea how long that will take. That's going to be the toughest part of this whole process. After we are matched, we will have to wait a couple of more months for the details to be finalized in the Philippines, then we will travel over there to pick up our child/ren!!! We will only need to be there for 7-10 days. Thanks for the thoughts and prayers, we really appreciate them!!!
The suavest siblings ever
The triplet cousins (Chad, Rachel and Matt)
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