Home Study approved!!

What's new?  Well, it feels like a whole lot of nothing, but in fact, a lot of important steps are taking place.  We just received a call that our home study has been approved!!  Yeah!!  It has been done for a while, but we had to wait on my passport and our social worker was then on vacation.  She called about 15 minutes ago and said she is overnighting it to our agency tomorrow morning. 

 

I am actually heading to our agency tomorrow to get a bunch of our documents notarized.  Unfortunately I will probably miss the home study, but I have been told they should be able to notarize it and mail it to me and I should get it next week.  Then I will take all those documents to be county certified, then state certified, then send them all to the Chinese Consulate in Houston.  We already have the Chinese stamp on all of our birth certificates and our marriage license.  Those had to go someplace else, but are back safely.  After we get everything back from Houston, my end of our paperwork for the dossier will be finished and we wait.  

Somewhere in this process, our agency sends our request for I800A off and then in the next few weeks we will get an appointment to go get fingerprinted downtown, sometimes there is a long wait just for the appointment.  Then we wait for them to approve them and send us the approval.  Finally our dossier will be complete, but will still need translated.  

It's hard to know that it is early July and I have done all I can do on my end,  yet it will probably still be late fall before we have a log in date in China.  Still hoping to get a referral by the end of the year.  Only God knows, but we know he is in complete control and will somehow lead us right to our sweet little girl. All we have to do is wait...... and wait!!  :)