"Hello Waltners,
I just wanted to let you know that your home study has been officially approved- congratulations!"
Those are the words I have been waiting to hear for the last month! All we need to do is sign a copy of the home study and we are good to go! What's next? We can now start plugging away on the dossier.
Out of the 20 documents I am preparing for the dossier, I have about 15 of them finished. I have already sent the first round of documents to Pierre to the Secretary of State to get authenticated, or state sealed. I can't wait for the post where I take a picture of all the documents with their state seals ready to be sent off!
If you look at number 16 on the list, the USCIS Approval, we are able to send our dossier to country before getting this approval. This process can take a month or longer, so not needing it right away is a good thing. Once we do get the approval to bring an orphan into the US, we just send that paperwork as an addendum to the dossier. We had been waiting on the home study to be finalized before we could send in that application, but will hopefully be able to do so next week.
Since reading the book "The Connected Child" by Karyn Purvis, I have really become a fan of her work. This website has short video clips of some of the topics she covers in the book about raising children who come from hard places. She is super smart and has tons of experience working with those types of children...check it out!
This week I also added "African Radio" on Pandora. The boys and I jammed out to some traditional African music....pretty fun!
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