Moving Forward

Well, our home-study is complete today. It is being sent for a final once over and then we will wait for our copy. Here is our social worker, Nikki, who was so efficient in getting this done quickly...she is also in a hurry to get our little guy home.

Once we receive our completed, notarized copies of the home study we will send one to the State of Iowa to be certified and one to Immigration Services to go along with the application for adoption of an international orphan we sent this week. After they receive this, we will be fingerprinted...AGAIN, and then receive our approval. Our next immigration paperwork will be done while we are in Ethiopia! After our homestudy is certified by the State of Iowa, it will be the final piece in our Dossier (a stack of papers and documents all about us sent to Ehtiopian gov't). When our Dossier makes it's way to Ethiopia we will be waiting for a court date... I will blog about this later.

What else are we doing in the mean time?






Jesus, please lift up our little boy today. Make his heart happy and ready to be loved. Make the space between us small as you give us favor in the courts, as you provide for this adoption financially, and as our love for him and our faith in You grows.