We have a contract!

Well we received our contract in the mail and went over and over it. It is now sitting, notarized, waiting for our social worker. We have been playing phone and email tag for weeks now! Once we get it signed, we can begin our education component for them. Sixteen additional hours! Good Grief!

This process has been a timely one....things seem to be moving soooooo sssslllooowwlllyyy. Please pray for encouragment and endurance as we begin a new chapter with Dove adoptions.

Phone Conference Complete and we wait.

Well the phone conference is over. The times got goofy with the two hour time difference. Thank you to Kerri for picking Hannah up from school!

We went over the adoption services agreement, answered questions, received a timeline, and became really overwhelmed!

Len and I will need some time to digest all of this.

Here is where we are in the process. They will review our application and phone conference and let us know in 24 hours if we are a family that Dove wants to work with. Once that happens, we will receive two copies of the contract. Both have to be signed and notarized then returned to Dove. With the contract we will receive a dossier packet. It gives us details on all of the paperwork that Dove requires. Gee more paperwork! YIPPEE! They will schedule a conference with us to go over the paperwork in detail and then they will check in with us every month via phone.

We have 16 hours of additional education credits to start working on. They send us the classes and then call us for the class evaluation.

If my thoughts are disorganized, I apologize. We are very overwhelmed. We know this is what we want. It is alot to start over again. Thankfully we are not at square one. But, wow!

Praying for peace in our brains and the wisdom to discern what to do now.