Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Our first official baby purchase




Yep, we got a jogging stroller. Thanks to the heads up of my awesome sister-in-law. One of her co-workers was selling it at a great price so she jumped on it for us. Hooray!! Last night was one of those "ohmigosh this is really real" moments. It felt good for a short while then the realization of the wait set in again. I did manage to assemble most of our dossier last night. It's all done and notarized (thanks to my favorite notary). I'm waiting on our family pics to add some of those in and then a couple of letters from the social worker. I'm hoping to be able to fax in all of our documents by the end of the week. It's been almost 3 weeks since our last homestudy visit so I'm expecting the homestudy to be done by the end of October. Once that is done, we can finally assemble the rest of the dossier for certification. What a long process. I know I share this sentiment with a lot of people: Why in the world can anyone go out and have a baby but because I want to adopt a child who needs parents, I have to spend thousands of dollars, watch 10 hours of parenting education, and stress over a pile of paperwork?