Progress Update 1 : Home Study Almost Done

Yesterday (Thursday July 29th) Michelle and I completed our final Home Study visit with Debbie Taylor, our social worker. She came to our nice little town home in Cleveland and drilled us about smoke detectors and cleaning products. (Not really.) It was actually a great visit. She has been nothing but encouraging and supportive throughout the entire process and we loved having her come see where our son will be sleeping once we bring him home.

At this point...we are finishing up some paperwork for the Home Study report: we need to turn in our physicals but are waiting on some test results (nothing major, just routine stuff), otherwise we will have completed our home study. We also are looking into getting our finger printing done soon.

After the Home Study is completed we will just have to finish the Dossier requirements, which is no small task. We think there is roughly a months worth of work left to do before we will be able to submit our Dossier to the agency and then to Ethiopia.

Be praying that we stay diligent with our paperwork, especially since the school/work year is kicking into high gear.

More to come soon. Let me know if you have any questions and I'll try to be more clear in my next post.

Love and Peace.