Ken and I have been working on our home study. We have learned how encompassing a home study is through this process! There are lots of forms to fill out, medical exams, fingerprinting, parenting classes (focused specifically on an adopted child)...etc. We are working with a wonderful adoption agency, Angel's Haven, for our home study. Although a home study is cumbersome, they are very important because they protect children. So all the work has meaning behind it.
The home study seemed overwhelming at first, but we just kept crossing items off the list, and just the other day, I realized that we were more than half-way done. Hopefully all the results and items will be completed within a month.
After our home study is done then we will focus on our dossier. We don't know much about those, but we will learn in time!
We are praying for a name for our little one over in China. A lovely name, that has good meaning. Hmmm....
In case you are wondering how old she is...she turned one year old this past April. Happy first birthday little one! We wish we could have been there. Hopefully we will all be together before her second birthday!
We just learned in our adoption parenting class, that children in orphanages lose one month of growth, for every 3 months they are in an orphanage. It is called emotional dwarfism. God designed us to grow up in families. There is hope though, they do catch up after they join a family. After we learned this, it made us all the more eager to hurry with our paperwork so that we can get her out of the orphanage- sooner rather than later.
Just watched this short video about adoption of special needs children...impactful and beautiful... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBotp_EOqiA&feature=player_embedded
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