Worth the wait

So we have been making great strides in the home study process! We completed our application and our adoption intake form for the agency. We signed the contract & paid the application fee. We have made copies of our birth certificates, marriage license, tax forms, and Charleigh's vaccination record. We have both been fingerprinted. We both took a six hour long day of classes and we are in the process of finishing up our online classes. We have scheduled our physicals and contacted our insurance company and we should be all done with our paperwork process by St. Patrick's Day. Also on St. Patrick's Day is our home study visit. This is the one where our case worker will come out to the house and do an assessment on the house and determine if we are fit to be parents. It's amazing to me how much we have to go through in order to be "allowed" to be parents. In the meantime, so many people that I know are getting pregnant and don't even want the kids.

Anyways, I digress. We are very excited that our home study process will be finished on March 17th and then we just wait for the clearances to get back to the agency and for our home study to be written and finalized. After that we just wait for a birth mom to pick us :)

So in the meantime we have many things planned to keep us busy and to help us enjoy the wait.

March:
We have our adoption "maternity" photo shoot next weekend with a friend of ours.
We have our home visit with the case worker.
We have a game night for the end of this month.

April:
Easter celebration with our families.
*Crossing our fingers our home study will be done this month!*

May:
Celebrating our anniversary with a weekend away hopefully.
The Annual May Fair at our church.

June:
Our friends' wedding.
Our cousin's shower and stag.
Andrew's birthday.
Our fundraiser tag sale
Hopefully a night away to Vermont.

July:
Beach day trips.
A Camping trip.
Wine festival.

August:
More beach day trips.

Our cousin's wedding.

Hopefully this process continues to go so smoothly. We would love to have a match before next Christmas. That would make the holidays a lot easier...