Wow - this is kind of weird...I have had this blog under construction for a long time now but never posted anything or told anyone how to find it. I guess the best way is to just rip off the band-aid huh?
So this blog was started to just record our journey to LuciQ. We are several months into the process...and frankly - we aren't very "good at it". The first part of the adoption process is an enourmous amount of paperwork that basically puts you in contact with every government entity in existence...ughhhhh. We jokingly call this a "Special Needs" adoption...cause Brian and I are definitley a "Special Needs" couple. We have to write letters via snail mail to 3 different court houses to request 3 different certified divorce decrees. Apparently my obnoxiously high state and county taxes haven't been enough to cover an internet connection for the Clerk of Court. Nice huh!
But I digress....
Most adoptive families would have knocked out their paperwork and home study in one fell swoop like Superman....like I said earlier...I am admitting it...we suck at this part! I am sure our agency has a special color coded file for people like us!
If it weren't for other blogger friend moms and some been-there-done-that family members pointing us in the right direction and making things clear and easy - pulling our heads up out of the fog (or out of somewhere else) - we would be jumping off a bridge by now.
SO - where are we now.....We have one more Home Study meeting on Dec. 21st at our home. If Brian doesn't get his medical exam and blood tests done before that - it might get ugly around here.
After the home study is done, then we fill out this long super official and very important form called I800 and I think after that we are done with all the heavy paperwork adn the waiting game begins. We wait for China to process our dossier and get LuciQ's paperwork in order for us to go get her. We are hoping for that to be in August 2011.
I am signing off for now but please feel free to shoot me questions about anything. I love you all!!!
