One Step Closer

It's only a baby step, but it's still a step! I have emailed copies of everything we have so far to the agency and they are going to submit our "online application" Monday or Tuesday with the foreign country. It is my understanding that when this application is approved, our daughter goes from being a "agency referral" to our personal daughter-in-waiting. We will have 6 months to complete our Dossier and send it to the foreign country to be approved. I like having that 6 month deadline, oddly enough. It feels like just the right amount of time.

We are also going to have our 1st home visit on Wednesday! I know I'm supposed to be nervous about our social worker coming to our house, but I'm just excited! I guess it helps that we already have 3 little kids, so I know the house is already set up to be pretty child-friendly. I am actually looking forward to suggestions to make it more accommodating to a blind child too. I have changed a few things here and there, but for the most part, I'm unsure of what special things might need done for her. I'm really looking forward to meeting our social worker too! We have emailed and spoken on the phone and she seems really nice and easy-going, so I'm viewing this as an educational process as opposed to us being judged as fit or unfit to be parents.

I will keep you posted!