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| November 22, 2014 |
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Last Saturday was National Adoption Day. I didn't even know there was
such a thing. I knew November is National Adoption Month, but I didn't
realize there was a specific day to celebrate adoption. I think that's wonderful. I think about adoption EVERY day. I think about our boy and wonder what he's
doing. I think about where we are with our paperwork and what's next on
my list of things I'm supposed to be working on or sending for. We have made considerable progress since April with all of the particulars. Birth certificates, marriage certificate, passports,
background checks and medical appointments and lots of other
paperwork....that's all done or will be this week. We had our adoption
training this summer where we had to attend adoption classes at our
agency for a day and then later finish other online training classes
throughout the summer. And we received our preapproval from China on
June 19th for this particular boy to be ours. (Yay!!) Our home study is
nearly complete except for our home visit where our social worker visits
our home (for about four hours...yikes!) to interview us and the kids
and to see what kind of environment our new son will be living in.
That's the week after Thanksgiving. I'm excited (and a little nervous),
but when that's done, she will write up her report and then our
homestudy will be complete. Then our whole file can be verified with the
Secretary of State where we live and then translated and authenticated
with the Chinese Embassy and then it's sent to China! So that's what we
are working towards to wrap up in December....the sending off of our
file (dossier) to be verified and authenticated. And then we wait....for
China to get everything in their system and send us our "official
referral". Once we have that, I can post pictures of our boy and send
him things. Our agency doesn't allow us to do that until we receive the
official referral which means they have approved our file, and we can
adopt this boy and move toward having a travel date.
