So after many weeks of debate, we went with our gut feelings and sent off for our application to adopt from Gladney Center for Adoption in Fort Worth, Texas. We did lots of reading and talking to representatives and felt this was the right agency for us.
Right now we have been busying ourselves with lots and lots of paperwork! Being our second adoption, I learned that we can complete the paperwork faster if we work on many aspects of the paperwork simultaneously. So, we are currently working on completing our home study (the part where a social worker comes to our home and either recommends us for adoption or not), gathering up all the documents for our Gladney application, sending off our 1-600A to Immigration, and working on our documents for our dossier (our application that we send to Ethiopia).
Part of our Gladney application and our dossier is a letter from our doctor stating that we are all healthy. To Ethiopia, this includes being free and clear of Hepatitis B & C, HIV, and Syphilis. So, we had all our labs done this week and hope to have our letters from our doctor sometime next week (fingers crossed). Of course, it wouldn't be international adoption if we didn't first have a mix-up as to whether we needed to be tested for Hep B&C or just Hep B. And, of course, this mix-up caused one of us to have to have our blood drawn twice. Guess who that was. Yep, poor Aaron who hates this sort of thing anyway!
In other news, Aaron's sister just got married this past weekend. Congrats to Allie and Andrew! The wedding was absolutely beautiful and perfect in every way. Grayson was the ringbearer and was a trooper that day considering he had an ear infection. With our decision to adopt coming so close to the wedding, we chose not to tell some of our family (including Allie and Andrew) until after their big day. So, I can't wait until they get back from their cruise and we can tell them they are going to be an Aunt and Uncle again!
Right now we have been busying ourselves with lots and lots of paperwork! Being our second adoption, I learned that we can complete the paperwork faster if we work on many aspects of the paperwork simultaneously. So, we are currently working on completing our home study (the part where a social worker comes to our home and either recommends us for adoption or not), gathering up all the documents for our Gladney application, sending off our 1-600A to Immigration, and working on our documents for our dossier (our application that we send to Ethiopia).
Part of our Gladney application and our dossier is a letter from our doctor stating that we are all healthy. To Ethiopia, this includes being free and clear of Hepatitis B & C, HIV, and Syphilis. So, we had all our labs done this week and hope to have our letters from our doctor sometime next week (fingers crossed). Of course, it wouldn't be international adoption if we didn't first have a mix-up as to whether we needed to be tested for Hep B&C or just Hep B. And, of course, this mix-up caused one of us to have to have our blood drawn twice. Guess who that was. Yep, poor Aaron who hates this sort of thing anyway!
In other news, Aaron's sister just got married this past weekend. Congrats to Allie and Andrew! The wedding was absolutely beautiful and perfect in every way. Grayson was the ringbearer and was a trooper that day considering he had an ear infection. With our decision to adopt coming so close to the wedding, we chose not to tell some of our family (including Allie and Andrew) until after their big day. So, I can't wait until they get back from their cruise and we can tell them they are going to be an Aunt and Uncle again!
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