Homestudy Interview 9-4-08

We have had such a full day, I can hardly remember where we started. Stuart and I were up early and off to the State Police Building downtown for fingerprinting. That didn't take long at all and pretty soon we were on our way up to the ASC. Since we arrived at the ASC early, Stuart and I went over to the CVS to have passport pics taken. We needed those for our dossier. Not sure why but I think it has something to do with our Visa once we get in country. After that, it was time for us to meet with our social worker. We basically sat for 2 hours and we talked about ourselves. I can honestly say I've never wanted/had to talk about myself that much before. But, this is only the beginning. I'm sure we'll be repeating the process again in a few weeks when we have our homestudy. After we finished all that it was down to Franklin for a quick lunch and then off to the Johnson County Sheriff's Dept. to obtain our local background check. Everything went very smoothly today with the exception of trying to get color copies of our passports. Apparently it's illegal to copy because they are copyright protected. So, we will need to find a way around that as we have to have that for our dossier. We are making great progress on getting things put together so I think its very realistic for us to be on the waiting list by December. I did receive an email from CHI today stating that the dossiers have piled up so much in country that they won't be sending anymore over for a while. The referrals just have not been coming in as fast as the dossiers. So, let's hope it starts raining referrals come Oct. when the courts reopen in Ethiopia. Thanks for all of your prayers. We're getting closer!!!