our finalized, notarized homestudy arrived in the mail this afternoon.
i put it in THE envelope and headed to the post office.
so...the week before Christmas.
4 kids.
4 pm.
could have been awful.
we brought a bowl of candy and decided to pass it out and spread some Christmas cheer!
now what??
we wait.
{surprise, surprise...}
we have just mailed off a form (with $830!) asking our government to be approved to adopt internationally.
it takes about 8 weeks to get the approval letter back.
in these 8 weeks we will be compiling our dossier.
what is a dossier??
a bunch of paperwork that we submit to Rwanda so that they can get a picture of who we are as a couple and as parents and as a family...our homestudy, financial statements, physical exams, pictures of our home...and refer us 2 precious boys to add to our family.
once we receive approval in 8ish weeks we will be able to include it with our dossier and mail it off to Rwanda!!!
THAT will be a BIG day!
but, today is also a big day and we are rejoicing!
