Post Home Study Update

It's been a hectic few weeks since we sat through the home study interview.  We spent a weekend in Dallas for Thanksgiving, went to Big Bend National Park in SW Texas, and spent the past week playing catchup at home and work from back to back four day weekends.  Now we need to buckle down and get moving again.

The interview itself was fairly probing, but actually was less difficult than we had imagined.  The social worker was friendly, and we made it through generally unscathed.  Due to delays caused by the holiday weekend, the study is not quite approved yet, but is going back and forth for final corrections / additions.  It should be complete within the next week.

After the interview, we had a phone conference with our adoption agency to discuss our next steps.  This may come as a huge surprise to you, but the next two parts of our preparation are paperwork and paperwork.  We need to put together the I-800A form (Petition to Adopt), and prepare our dossier for the Armenian government.  There is a lot of gathering of existing documents still to be done - we need certified copies of birth certificates, marriage licenses, and the like - and everything needs to be certified.  As an added bonus, everything for the dossier also needs to be "appostilled", which essentially means that we have to certify the certification.

We've already begun ordering some of the necessary documents, and hope to have everything done around the first of the year.  Hopefully we'll have more to report soon.  We thank you all for your support and continued prayers.  God Bless.