First Steps

Even though Micah and I have been licensed with a home study to adopt in the U.S. we will need to do a "do over" in order to make a home study specific for Ethiopia. A bummer in the way of time and money, but we want to make sure everything we do sets us up for success in the Ethiopian courts.

This last week, we began to work through a large pile of paperwork (the first of many large piles). It seems to be going faster this time because we are familiar with the process now and already have many of the documents that will be required.

Just like we did last year, all of the adults in our home had to go to the county jail and get fingerprinting done for our background checks.



It is good to have started this process as it takes 6-9 weeks to get a clearing from the FBI. This will be the longest part of the home study. Hopefully, we will have everything else completed by the time these are cleared.

Last Thursday, we all got inked, all of our papers got notarized, and we headed to the post office.


Good-bye stack of papers, soon someone special will make you seem very worth it!