So in the last month, we traveled Vienna, Budapest and Amsterdam then arrived home to Portland to spend one last night in our condo in the S. Waterfront before closing on our new home in Sellwood. The last two weeks John's been painting walls, fixing closets, trim and windows and it's finally feeling like home.
There were a few fixes along the way with the adoption paperwork but I won't bore you with what has just become par for the course. Great news is the home study is done, I've given everything I need to give and now I'm just waiting for my copy of the certified home study and sending it in with my immigration paperwork for little Bao. Our social worker, who submitted our study and will be visiting through our first year with our little one, came by to verify our new home to be safe and upon leaving, told me that the matching starts after the home study is submitted. WHAT????? I was definitely a bit taken a back. So this is it. There's nothing standing in the way - it's just a matter of time. She said it's been moving quickly (relatively) for China adoptions these days. It really made me realize how unreal the process has been for me thus far. It's just been a task that I knew I wanted to do as well as I could because it would lead to a dream coming true. When people ask me about it, I just tell them about the hiccups and the detours in the process but now there's really nothing to get in the way of just being excited. My heart is beating faster and my brain is twisting between anxiety and elation as I type this. I don't know when or how it's going to happen but it doesn't really matter at this point - the only thing that matters is who.
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