We got a packet in the mail that had our contract with Bethany Christian Services (BCS) and our fingerprint/background check forms. We are so excited to be moving forward and making a little bit of progress towards having our future child with us in our home.
In this packet, we also found out that we need to be at a training up in Seattle this coming weekend--so we booked our hotel and will have a little night out on the town as we get to work towards adoption--YAY! And, the domestic coordinator up in Seattle was nice enough to let us do our orientation on Friday so we get to get two things out of the way, instead of spending two different Saturdays doing the training on day and the orientation on the other day. Thanks to the coordinator for doing this!!
And this morning, Mark and I went to get our fingerprints taken! It was a weird feeling going in to get it done. I kept saying, "we are doing this to work towards adoption." OR "We are doing this for our adoption" just so everyone didn't think we were getting booked into the jail for something. Haha!!
We are excited that we can be pro-active in this stage of the adoption--because from all of the adoption blogs I've read, waiting is the HARDEST because there isn't much you can do once you've turned in all your paperwork and your homestudy is approved, the only thing you're waiting on is for a birthmother to choose you and then for the baby to be born. There isn't much you can do while you wait besides sort of prepare your home for a baby whom you don't when he/she will arrive--you can be waiting for one day after your approved home study, or you can be waiting for years. So I am glad that I am in the stage where I can check things off and move forward at this time :)
Well, off to clean the house, but just wanted to update people as we had some info.
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