I love cooking on a gas stove. It's instantly hot, not waiting for things to warm up. Food gets cooked quicker, more efficient. Just like our paper chase for this adoption!
Folks, this thing is going a lot faster than I thought it would. I'm totally flabbergasted that everything for our home study has been turned in, and that we already have 29 documents for our dossier.
In order to finalize our home study, which will then be included in our dossier, we have one more visit with our social worker. It is scheduled for May 3. Once that's done and the final draft is written, it will be submitted to Hand of Help in Adoption (our facilitation team) for review and then to Joshua Tree ( our primary provider that provides Hague oversight) for final approval. That's the next step in this journey, finalizing the home study and getting it approved.
Although we have already paid an application fee to Joshua Tree, we still need to pay the rest of their fees. They will not approve the home study until their fee is paid. Makes sense. This a layer of accountability established after we finalized our last international adoption and with the layer come additional fees. As if adoption wasn't already expensive. I understand their role in this and I get it.
I'm glad we know Who our provider is!
Think I'll turn the flames down for tonight and get some sleep. The real Cook in this never sleeps or slumbers. He's got the watch.
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