I’m a little overdue for an update… I wish I could tell you
that so much has been done over the past few weeks but honestly, we’ve just
been up to our ears in paperwork! It’s crazy how much paperwork is required for
adoption. And then once you get it, you have to get it certified only to get it
certified again. It’s amazing how anyone can decide to become a parent and
birth a child but you have to be put through the ringer to adopt… medical,
financial, psychological, background checks, references… whew! We’ve completed
our medical checks, had our 1st home study meeting, and sent off our
fingerprints for our FBI background check. Now we are working on educational
classes and our autobiography and marriage questionnaire for our social worker
so she can start the home study write up. Everyone says that our social worker
will know more about us than we know about ourselves- a little scary, huh?
Anyways, all this will make up our dossier which is a collection of papers and
info on Will and me and why we should be allowed to adopt. Once our dossier is
complete, we hope to have a referral in 6-9 months. We are slowly treading
through.
But onto exciting news…
Thanks to an awesome friend at Bethel, Shelby Blake, we have
our first fundraiser!! She was able to design a picture that we wanted of the
world showing the connection from Poland to Tennessee… the little journey we
will travel to bring a special child home!! Check it out…
We then had this picture flipped into a puzzle of 513
pieces. Yes, 513! Being the genius
that I am (or rather that I’m not), I didn’t think about how hard it would be
to put this puzzle together… we hope to have it done before the baby comes
home. Lol…
And here’s how it will go… We are asking for a donation of
$5 for each piece. When you donate to our adoption for a puzzle piece you get
to write your name on the back of your piece. We will then connect the puzzle
and eventually (and hopefully) when it is completed we will be able to frame it
and show our child one day all the pieces of the puzzle that brought him or her
home. YOU could be a piece of this
puzzle and this amazing journey. Please let me know if you are interested and
tell all your friends. You can call me or Will, email us, facebook us, or
whatever. We will keep puzzle pieces with us at almost all times so you can
donate whenever!!
