more flowers leaves and volunteering

So Alex was here again today :)
We now have more flowers and some leaves...This thing is really coming along and I am so happyyyyyyy!!!

I have really enjoyed working with CHS and have been putting alot of thought into how I can help, so I am submitting an application to become a volunteer for them. Not sure where they will need help, but I am sure I can do something :) I received all my paperwork today and will be mailing it off tomorrow :)

Nothing else new, just waiting.... patiently waiting...ok not so patiently, but I am waiting none the less!

Hurry Up And Wait

MAPP classes are done, 101 pages of essay questions done, CPR done, home study done,fire inspection done, 2 sets of finger prints done, background checks done, photo profile done...just getting the last of our references together. They get turned in Tuesday and Friday my social worker sits down with the head of CHS to get everything finalized. Once that is done, everything comes back for us to sign and then gets sent up for approval to the state.
After the approval we can start getting bios and go to match events. I am praying we are good to go for the match event on June 11th.
I am feeling pretty good about how quickly our process has gone. So many in our class had started back in the fall and still haven't gotten as far as we have. And there are others who have not even been assigned a social worker. Alot of the process depends on how quickly and thoroughly we complete our parts.
Cris & I have been on top of everything. The family that came in to talk to us took 2 years to complete the process, but they were slow with getting things back and also they wanted a young child, they ended up with 2 young children.

I am glad to have my Saturdays back, but I will miss getting to see Leigh Ann, Jerel, Michelle & Mark. OK, not too much since we are getting together Friday for dinner. It will be interesting to see how all of our searches go. Both couples are interested in out of state adoption. We are not. It will be hard enough on the child to start with move to a new family and school. There is a good chance that the child will have siblings and I would really like to maintain a relationship between our child and any siblings as best we can.
I know it is healthier for the child that way.

Cris was talking to someone at a wedding last night and told them that we would be adopting 1 or 2 children. That is cool to know he is open to a second child down the road.Cris says the next year or two. Sometimes of the biological family has another child that gets relinquished to Foster Care they will try to get the adoptive family of the one sibling to adopt the second child. That would be great too!

Well, I probably won't have much to write for a little bit...but then things will be popping!!!!

Tying Up Loose Ends

This has been a super busy week! Tuesday night we did our finger prints again, this time it was done the old school way. Last night we had our fire inspection. We are collecting of references now. I printed up our adoption profile scrapbook. Since I couldn't put the originals on here I took pictures. I am very pleased with how they turned out.

So we have just 2 more classes and then we play the wait game for our approval to come through! I am sure it will go smoothly, everything else has.
Then it is on for the really hard part, finding our daughter. We are going to our first Matching Event on June 11th up on Lake Norman. They bring children that are eligible for adoption to these events once a month. This one we will be learning to water ski! That should be fun! It will also be cool to see how the kids react to a challenge. I love the things that Children's Home Society does. Anyone interested in adopting I highly recommend them :)