What we're up to!

I realize that I haven't posted anything new in a while and it's because we have been working on our paperwork! Last week we had our first talk with our Case Manager at AGCI. She went over everything that will need to happen for our dossier and what we should be focusing on right now. Our main focus for the next couple of months is our homestudy and our education. We are currently gathering and working on our homestudy documents (some of these are the same as our dossier documents). After we get all of these gathered and signed, etc. we will send them to our local homestudy agency and then we will begin our visits with our social worker.

I have been busy working on my autobiography. Brian and I are each required to write up an autobiography discussing our childhood, school, relationships, how we met, our dating relationship, marriage, our daughter, etc. So, as you can imagine this is pretty time consuming. I've enjoyed writing it but I also am having a hard time finishing it.

I also mentioned that we are working on our education. Our agency requires that we complete 6 online classes about adoption as well as a huge workbook that Brian and I will do together. It has 20 chapters and just about every page has questions. We've already looked through the book and I am really excited about it. It's going to be tough but stuff that we need to think about and ask ourselves. I'm so thankful that our agency wants us to do this education so that we are better prepared.

So, if you wonder where we are or why you don't see us as much it's because we are working on all of this! This week Brian is going to get our certified birth certificates and marriage certificate. We have to take pictures of each of us and the front and back of our house too. We are also going to be getting our criminal background checks done. The list is long guys and I won't list everything but we are eager to get it all turned in! Pray for us that this will go smoothly and we can schedule our visits soon!



Much love,