Well, how long has it been since I last blogged.....a while! That is how long it has taken us to finish the homestudy. We finally got all the reference letters done and proof read etc. only to find out that our original Canadian background check was never completed last year as Ethiopia didn't require it. So, we have spent the last few weeks trying to complete that and getting the total run around from the agency in Canada. There had also been several agency personnel changes over the last month as well and we were starting to lose hope. The feeling of "this is starting to happen all over again" started creeping in. We were starting to wonder if this adoption was ever going to happen and if maybe someone was trying to send us a message.
All of a sudden everything changed. Our Canadian background check finally came through and our home study was done. That same day while in line checking out in Walmart, the social worker in charge of China's waiting children or children with special needs called me to talk about what kind of child we were willing to parent. WOW..what a change in one day.
Today I officially sent in our paperwork for our I-800 A which is the pre-approval for immigration and was the step that needed to be taken before any thing else could be done. I also sent in out pre-approval paperwork that gets forwarded to the agency in China. We are officially waiting for a daughter from China :)
