Approved!

Our morning got started very early on Wednesday Aug 29th. I woke up and took the pups for a very long walk to wear them out before the social worker arrived. We went twice around Parker's lake. I think Bella could have gone a 3rd time she is like the energizer bunny. Daisy was worn out.

At 10:00 our social worker arrived things went really well far less stressful then what I had anticipated. The pups were well behaved. They played outside while we talked more with our SW about parenting and cultural stuff. After we were all done talking she took the tour of our house and then we were officially approved. We had to sign some paper work and she gave us our CIS paper work then she headed out.

After our SW left mike called his eye doctor to get his eyes checked and get his letter. He got lucky and got in that afternoon. For now that is the last doctor letter needed. We may need to get more. The Korea specialist will let us know.

We are now just waiting to hear from the Korea team. Our SW worker said we should hear from them within the week.

We are very excited but we do have a long wait ahead of us. To celebrate mike and I went to the state fair and pigged out on pronto pups,fries,deep fried pickle chips. Yum -o

Have a great holiday weekend

First Visit

Mike and I had our first visit with our social worker today. Mike and I thought things went pretty well. We had a 3 hour visit at Childrens Home. We were both pretty nervous before hand but settled down when we got talking. We mostly talked more in depth about our childhoods and how we were raised our marriage and Gavin. We will have to get more doctors letters. One for Mike's lazy eye which is corrected with glasses and maybe his back problem that he had when he was younger. I will probably also have to get yet another letter from my oncologist. uggh! How many ways can one say I deem her cured! Hee Hee. Oh well it just part of the process. We will have our home visit Next Wed Aug 29th. The day after my last with Christopher and Banks. I'm going to really have to wear out the pups that morning. I think it will have to be a 2 lap day around Parkers Lake. We have a few more books that our SW suggested we get. She is checking on the process of getting pre- approved to adopt from Korea. This will help so that we don't wait until referral to find out that we can not adopt due to my cancer history. Korea has a 5 year remission rule. I'm way past that starting my 10 year.
That all for now:-)

Welcome

Welcome to our adoption journey.

We have had quite an exciting spring and summer. Mike and I started the adoption process in April. Our agency is Childrens Home Society and Family Services. We are hoping to adopt a boy or girl from South Korea. We handed in our application on May 24th and about a month later we got our invite to attend our Pre Adoption Classes. On July 19th and 20th we went to PAC. After PAC we had to write our self studies which took about a week and half. After we were all done we each had about 10 pages written. We turned our self studies on Aug 2nd. On Aug 10th we got assigned to our social worker. Our first meeting with her is Aug 22nd at Childrens Home. Things have been going pretty smoothly. Mike and I are looking forward to our first meeting with our social worker.