Okay, I know the title of this blog is "Ribar ADOPTION Adventure", but when all we are doing is waiting, I find myself blogging about the rest of our life. You don't have to read if you don't want to, but this is like my journal. It's therapeutic for me to write this all down, and to look back to see what our life has held for the past year. No one's been complaining, but I figured I'd put that disclaimer out there!!
Adoption timeline
August 2006 - Decided to adopt from Philippines
September 2006 - Attended Hand in Hand Orientation (found out I had to be 27 before sending in our dossier)
January 2007 - Sent in application and fee to Hand in Hand to begin the adoption process
February 2007 - Met with Karin at Hand in Hand to begin the plethora of paperwork that would become our dossier
February, March and April 2007 - attended 3 day-long training classes at Hand in Hand regarding adoption
June 2007 - Had our psych eval that proved we are sane enough to adopt (or maybe insane enough to adopt?)
July 13 2007 - Had our homestudy with Diane the social worker
July 16 2007 - Sent the remaining paperwork to Hand in Hand
August 3 2007 - Our dossier was sent out for the appropriate U.S. signatures
August 17 2007 - Our dossier was sent to the Philippines (ICAB)
September 30 2007 - We are approved to adopt from the Philippines
November 29 2007 - We FIND OUT that we are approved to adopt from the Philippines, and our names are added to the list of Prospective Adoptive Parents - PAPs (and discover we've already "officially" been waiting for 2 months - woot!)
July 14 2008 - Received our referral for Ezekiel!!
2 comments:
Very nice - mine is only at junior high level. I guess I have to use some more biggerer words.
Todd,
Maybe you need to throw in randomly large words like flying buttresses....
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