Approved and received

Its officially done. The home study is finished!!! It has been approved by the head of the department. It was shipped to our new agency in Columbus and they received it today. This is when the really hard waiting starts. All we need is a birth mom (who is having a girl) to come in and pick us. It could happen tomorrow or it could take months. Obviously the sooner it happens the happier we'll be, but we really want to finalize this year so we can take advantage of all the tax breaks next April. We can't finalize until the baby has been here for 6 months so we hope to have her with us very soon. Keep saying prayers for us, but we're in the home stretch!

Inching along

I got an e mail from our social worker today. She needs 3 pieces of information and then she is done with the home study. Hopefully she'll get everything tomorrow. Once she finishes, it goes to her boss for review and approval. Once it has her seal of approval, we are done. By the end of next week, we should be presented to birth moms!