Dear Emery & Cristy,
Thank you so much for your interest in our agency. We have received your application and supporting documents and are pleased to add you to our adoption program. We look forward to assisting you on your adoption journey and hope to make your experience as positive as possible.
WOOHOO!! Ya'll, that means we are officially waiting for a birth mom to choose us. Our home study is complete and application has been accepted by the agency. A very nice lady came out to visit us a little over a week ago to check in with us. She asked about anything that may have changed since our last adoption, spoke to the boys briefly and took a tour of our home. About a week later we received a draft of our home study to review. We immediately approved it and a few days later the agency signed off on it.
We sent in our scrapbook, to be reviewed. We were given a few instructions on how to make it better. It was sent back in a few days later and that was approved as well. Apparently I am unable to attach a PDF file to this blog, so I can not post it. I will figure out a way to post it some day!
I packaged these hard copies up a few days ago and sent them in as well. The agency keeps a digital copy and hard copies on file. These scrapbooks are used to show birth mothers when there are families who meet their criteria in a family they would like for their child.
Tonight I packaged up an application to send to another agency. It is the agency who got Isaiah placed with us. The agency who completed our home study is the agency Xavier was placed through. We have enjoyed working with both agencies in the past, so why mess up a good thing! We are so very excited about the latest news.
So, now we wait. We wait to be chosen. This is where all my emotional posts start.....the anxious, impatient posts. This is the hard part.
Thanks for all the prayers and support! We truly appreciate it.
