Take 2!!

The other day I attempted to update my blog. After a lengthy entry, my internet crashed and remained down the rest of the day. Devil was hard at work trying to stop me from spreading the awesomeness that was in that blog. Well....I win again!! This entry will be even BETTER than the previous one that never posted!!

SO where are we now?? What has been happening for the last (almost) three months?? SOOO MUCH! Here is it in a nutshell:

We attended multiple agency orientations

We picked our adoption agency

We had our intake interview

We were told we would be a "perfect fit" for the agency

We were invited to participate in their training for foster/adoptive parents

We have attended 2 of the training sessions

WOW...I remember thinking we would never get the ball rolling. Now we are moving forward steadily. So what does that mean for our future? What is the process? Well let me show you. The following is the process for our specific agency.

1.) Request Adoption info (DONE)
2.)Attend Information Meeting (DONE)
3.) Intake Interview (DONE)
4.) Training Course (IN PROCESS)
5.) Formal Application
6.) Family Assessment Process AKA Home Study
            -this assessment has several parts to it
            A.) First Interview (DONE)
            B.) Second Interview at the house with both John and I
            C.) Third and Fourth Interviews at the agency, John and I interviewed separately
            D.) Fifth Interview at home with John and I (and the kids).
7.) Approval
Then we will work on matching and placement.

So there ya have it....where we are now and where we are headed!! Our last class will be the week of Thanksgiving. Then comes the stacks of paperwork. Luckily, my 10+ years in medical administration has fine tuned my paperwork abilities!! I love paperwork and am slightly OCD when it comes to completing it. I have been told this will help us in the Home Study process :-)

A couple closing comments...the child both John and I were interested in has been adopted!! We are so happy for Alissa and KNOW God will bring us our child when the time is right. Also, the classes we are taking have been extremely insightful in raising our bio kids! We both have already taken so much away from these classes. We have some mandatory reading to do. We have to read "The Connected Child", and we also have to read "Wounded Children, Healing Homes". They are both about how to help children who have gone through trauma of all different varieties. SO these are pretty important to read and really understand.

So there ya have it....our latest update. Please continue to pray for our journey. The Devil has already proven to us that he isn't going to let this happen without a fight. To that I say...BRING IT BAD GUY!!