Approved!!

happy easter everyone!!! we recieved our letter that states that we are approved for one child. so this is really exciting for me.. we are excited to start our dossier and finally we are closer to getting our child.. this has been a great journey and yet more to come... please keep me in your prayers and i hope that by the end of this year we will get our child!

next step!!

yesterday we did our fingerprints and now i am ready to do our own criminal background check. tami and june, could you please send me a list from the beggining of what i need to prepare for my dossier.. and where in the world do i find a facilitator???

Fingerprints..

sorry for not blogging for a while, my kids got really sick so i was not available.. well anyways, we recied our letter from USCIS to go and get fingerprints. now i think that we are one step closer to going to ukraine. pretty much i now just need to et my dossier ready to send to ukraine and find a really good facilitator. well, they girl that we were hoping to adopt ended up getting adopted along with her brothers and so she is nolonger available for adoption, so i guess when we get to ukraine, we will just have to see which child really falls into our hearts. if anyone has any advice on how i should prepare the dossier, PLEASE let me know. thank you!!

yahooo...!!!!

yesterday, Dec. 15 we finally received our home study, so i have sent all of our paper work to INS and i am praying that we get a letter very soon, because i don't want my paperwork to expire in a year.. if anyone knows how long it take, please let me know so that i will stop worrying... thank you all God bless....

finally..!!!

so this week i finally recieved the papers that were needed from ukraine and pennsylvania for my husband, but now i am waiting on the fingerprints for my husband that need to be done in oregon.. so this is a long and painful process.. if anyone has any suggestions, please let me know... i wish that the laws would stop changing all the time.. does anyone know where i can look up the laws about the homestudy process and what needs to be done??

Frusterated....!!!!!!!

Today, i talked with the person who is doing my homestudy and she says that she still has not heard back from pennsylvania about the criminal background check for my husband and now she tells me that she has to do another criminal background check for ukraine, because he lived there for 18 years.. so this is a hassle because there are no records in ukraine, but she doesnt believe me and says that she needs to contact someone.. so we have waited now 3 months to get our homestudy and still nothing.. she says that it is ready to be mailed out, but she cant unless she gets those items.. this is kind of frusterating for me because i really want to turn in my homestudy on time so that none of my papers expire..

Communcation..!!

Today, Nov. 17, 2008 i talked with my homestudy agent and she told me that she is waiting for fingerprints to come back from pennsylvania for my husband and that everything is done and ready to be sent to me, and i even sent her the rest of the money for the homestudy.. i was blessed to get a wonderful person to do our homestudy since in the beginning it was hard for us to come up with some of the money.. also if anyone can hep me financially with my adoption i would be so thankful. God Bless everyone..!!!