Well that was fast

I just got a call from the person who will be our social worker. She has received our paperwork that we mailed off and we set up a meeting with her for this Friday

Wait... WHAT? Can you break that down for me again? Slower this time??

Sure!

Yes, the paperwork we mailed off on January 24th, the stuff we mentioned in this post, has made its happy way back to Eau Claire and has landed on the desk of our social worker. (We seriously have a social worker now??? I still feel like we should probably say that she might be our social worker...but I guess not...?)

Yes, this happened a LOT faster than we thought it would. Based on conversations with other's timeline of this part of the process, we estimated it would take anywhere from 1 to 3 months. It has been three weeks. Yes, this freaks us out a little, but it is also exciting and we are going to roll with it.

Yes, we are meeting THIS Friday. Two days from this moment we will be sitting on our couch with our social worker. Better get cleaning when I get home tonight!

Apparently, as our social worker told me, in this meeting she will go over what the program looks like and we will go over the paperwork we mailed in. Then she will go back and decide if we are a good fit for the program. If they decide we are then we will get an application to fill out, then the home study process will begin.

So, here we go! (I know I've said this before, and I'm sure I'll say it again a million more times as the process begins to feel more and more real!)

Please pray for us as we meet our social worker on Friday. Pray for timing throughout the process. Continue to pray for our kids and pray that we'll listen closely to the spirit's guidance to stay on the path that will lead us to them.

It's Official!

Y'all, today we stuck an envelope in the mail that will change everything. Or at least will start a process that will change everything.

In December we attended an informational meeting for adopting through foster care that is required to attend before you start the process. We didn't know it, but we would leave that meeting with the paperwork we would need to fill out and mail in to officially start the process.

So we took our time, got through the holidays, started Grad school, and finally got it filled out.

So then we sort of looked at each other and thought, "Well, its filled out, so I guess now we mail it in..."

Sticking an envelope in the mail never felt so, exciting, nerve-racking, or "Oh my goodness, now its out of our hands and into theirs" before.

So the little envelope that will change our lives is off to Madison, where they will look it over and decide if we are a good fit for the program, if they deem that we are it will make a trip back to Eau Claire to the local office here where they will look it over and again decide if we are a good fit for the program, and if they also deem we are we'll get a call! Whew! This process (I've heard) can take anywhere between 1-3 months, so begins the waiting!