SNOW!SNOW!SNOW!

We didn't get to do our last homestudy because of the 4 inches of snow we received Thursday night! Kids got out of school early because of ice and stayed home Friday. They say more is to come Sunday and Monday, but we will wait and see if it comes true!
I went and had my physical done. Olivia DID NOT like it when they had to take my blood. She said, "No mommie, it's gonna hurt you. I don't want it to hurt you. You will have a bobo!" So sweet! I told her daddy and I had to do the same thing when we were trying to get her. She just looked at me at that point and didn't say anything!! Then all day, when she would get beside me she would look and say,"I don't want to hurt u's bobo...am I touching it!" HA I told her it didn't hurt, but she was still concerned!
So..I've done all I can do on my side. Waiting on clearances to come in, homestudy to be done, certified birth certificates and marriage license to come in. But...waiting while in the process of adoption is part of it! (esp from China...they are soo thorough!!!)
Well, Livy is in the bed for a nap, Zackery is at work, Cameron and Jake are in Cam's room and Anthony and Chase are getting a hair cut so I guess I will try to find something on TV. I don't feel like doing much, on ABX for a slight infection, so I'm just going to be lazy today! Perfect day for i! :) Until next time!!!

One more thing done

There are new Hague rules that we have to follow for this adoption. It's alot more things that we have to do and one of those things are 10 hours of parent training. It's listening to videos about growth, attachment, China in general, things first time adoptive parents need to be aware of and things like that. It was actually very interesting and I'm glad we watched them. We did all 10 hours in 2 days!! And you have to take a quiz to finish and show that you did do them. We got our certificate today, so we are done! I have almost all of the paperwork ready, and are really just waiting on certified birth certificates, police clearance and the homestudy. So...if the homestudy is done by the end of February, then we could do our fingerprints in March and sending our dossier off in April/May! That's pretty fast! That means it would have only taken 4-5 months for the dossier. Now that doesn't make CCAA speed up, but it gets our paperwork to them faster! :)
Anyway, supposed to have last homestudy done Friday, but they are calling for snow and ice so not sure if it will happen! I have my physical tomorrow so that will be done! Well, that's about all that's happening now..so until another milestone...ttyl!

YAY!!!

Our agency got our first check and now I get to upload all the other things I have to do. This is good because it's a BIG step closer. The faster I get the papers done and mailed, the faster they come back and might have them done by the time the dossier is finished...about 2-3 mths!! I am hoping I can get things done that fast. It's not my first rodeo on all the paperwork, so I should be pretty efficient at getting it done! I didn't even think they were in today, so I'm VERY excited. We have to do 10 hrs of "training" on the computer this time bc of Hague requirements, but oh well!!!
YAY! I LOVE filling out paperwork too, so I'm excited! Gotta finish cleaning my room and Olivia's room, cook dinner and then I can download all of it and get started!!!

And the cat is finally out of the bag!

It was so hard not telling people about our exciting news, but we had a few things we had to do in order to tell everyone. There are several processes you have to go thorough and we wanted to make sure we were sure it was gonna happen! I guess it's kinda like when you are pregnant, you might have taken the home test, but want to make sure with a Dr. appt before you tell many people! In the adoption process, you have to be accepted and that takes alot of numbers and paperwork! So, we sent in our application in December, found out we were accepted and then had to do a few more things before we were ready! But I am SOOO glad that I can run my mouth now! HA!
Tomorrow is our homestudy day, so today I will have to clean. Then she should be coming back for the second one on Friday! The faster we get the homestudy done, the faster we can send it to the CCAA in China and they can "Choose" the baby girl that's right for us AND we get to fill out paperwork for grants! Now THAT will take a LONG time!
So, until tomorrow, we are cleaning. OH we get new windows in the whole house too (THANK YOU CHURCH) so maybe we can save a little money on electricity!!! Please feel free to leave comments or ask questions or whatever you would like to do on here. I am soo excited all of you are joining us on this journey and for some of you, on this journey again! It's so much better when shared by people you love and are interested in your lives! So, until next time!!!
WE ARE GOING BACK TO CHINA!! ONE LAST MEIMEI (little sister in Chinese), Zoey!!