Tuesday, May 1, 2007

A real good week!

We've gotten a lot of things tidied up the past week or so since our last post. The house is cleaner than it has been in a long time, and we got rid of a lot of clutter. We also got some loose ends tied up with the paperwork.

It went real smooth with accountant last Monday and we got the letter for Alli's business sent right out. That was a huge relief since we had to wait three weeks for the appointment!

We received our fingerprint appointment letters from Homeland Security last Tuesday (finally!) and we are scheduled to have them taken this Friday, May 4th at the Syracuse branch office at 8:00AM. Wahoo!

We had our first home study visit last Saturday. It went really well! Our Social worker is very nice and is very laid back and easy going, which helped ease some of the anxiety. Now that we have started it we realize that there is nothing to be nervous about- it was actually quite enjoyable! During the visit she checked out the house- nothing fancy, just the nickel tour. She needed to see where the nursery would be, where our room was in relation to the nursery, etc. She needed to know the square footage of the nursery, as well as the for the whole house and how much land we have. She also needed to know our proximity to the schools, churches, stores, hospitals, doctor's offices, etc. Besides those types of questions, she asked how mew met, about us as a couple, some childrearing questions, and our views on how we felt she would be accepted in our community. SHe asked how we planned to incorporate her native culture into her life/our lives, which Alli and I have already started to do even though our little angel most likely isn't even born yet. She was impressed with how much have already thought about all those aspects of our lives and how they would be changing, which was nice to hear. We are excited to become and Asian-American family and look forward to the changes.

Our next home study meeting is this coming Saturday, the 5th, from 4:30 to 6:30 PM. This visit will count as two and will focus on each side of our families- 1 hour each. The final visit will be to sign the home study report at a mutual location chosen between us and New Life Adoption Agency.

We are really getting down to the short list now and we can see the light at the end of this tunnel. Just a few more papers to sign and submit...

We'll post another entry after our next visit to let you know how it went.

Thanks for all your love and support.

We love you all,
~Gary & Alli

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