Hi friends. We are getting closer. Our paperwork is slowly and I mean s.l.o.w.l.y. coming to the end. We are waiting for our final homestudy draft. Our social worker has emailed twice this week with 2 different drafts. She told us yesterday that she hopes for the final one to be complete today! (for those of you where this is just a bunch of adoption lingo all blurring together- the written home study is a 18-20 page report on our family after the visits our social had with us and reviewing a bunch of paperwork we turned in) If it is completed today she will email a copy to our Adoption Agency in Michigan. They will review it and if satisfactory they give our social worker (here in Minnesota) the green light to mail us a notarized official copy!
As soon as that is in our hands we mail out our USCIS packet to the U.S. Government!
Would you pray today?
Would you pray for speed.
Pray that we would not need any revisions.
Pray for our social worker here in Minnesota and our agency in Michigan.
Pray for us that we can have all documented paperwork correct and ready for the second our home study is in our hands.
Today I will be putting together all of the paperwork I have had ready for months. I will be calling our agency to make sure everything is as it should be with what I have done. I will be getting a mailer and addressing it to the government office where it will be sent.
Sophie asks me pretty regularly if I am praying for a miracle. I guess I do pray for miracles pretty regularly. Today I ask you all to keep praying for miracles in this adoption process.
I have prayed from the beginning of this whole process that we would be done with our paperwork by the end of September.
I am still praying this.
But it would be a miracle.
Thankfully I know the God of all Creation - who daily works miracles. Every step of this process as been nothing short of miraculous.
After the USCIS paperwork goes out (praying by early next week!) then we will have 2 of our 3 main steps in our paperchase done!
After we get our approval from the U.S. government we can send off our Ethiopian Dossier!
Then we can breathe.
Then we can wait.
Thank you friends for joining us on this journey. Thank you for praying us through this and for coming alongside of us in so many ways.
We are grateful.
As I type this Levi is talking to Dan about "when his babies come home".....
my heart is full of anticipation.
