Saturday, January 08, 2011

WE DID IT - approved to be parents

Wow - someone should have done or told us this about 7 years ago while pg with Nate - but we have been "determined approved or qualified" to parent an adoptive child!  Ha - this stupid, one page ore like a form letter than any official document says we are good to go.  Now we have just over a year to bring a child home!  Well we can always renew or update our data - but its good to know we are "ok".

this is a huge piece of paper that is required for I think all international adoptions - its a form that goes in our dossier (the official package of info for ET.  I'm still waiting on my properly dated letter from my doctor - but need to now have her explain that weakly reactive is negative or good enough.  a few more letters need to be updated and notarized - hope to do that this week. My work letters will be redone on Monday.  And then once the agency says OK - we are off to the Great Seal of MI to have all the documents validated that the notaries are valid and good.  I don't have to drive to Lansing as the Livonia service center has a Great Seal office there - I will probably call Monday to see if we need to make an appointment or just show up and stand in line - better be safe then sorry - I have Next Friday off - so if I can get it all done - we can have our stuff submitted to the Stork something and they will deliver our package to DC for I think translation -

wow - not even sure where to begin yet - but once it is submitted in ET - the official wait on a waiting list happens as we await the referral of our next child.  It is amazing.  I still keep having dreams its a boy - but then see little girls and they are so beautiful.  I just don't care - Only God knows who the child will be.

Alright - off to finish cooking for a potluck at church tonight  - its Game Night!

2 comments:

Heather said...

Yeah! So happy that you have that step completed (which means mine should be in the mail in a week or so) :)

Larynxical Ballerina said...

Congratulations Backus Family!!! Can't wait to hear all about the new edition!