The Begining

Hello everyone! So I guess I should start with a little background info. John and I have always planned on adopting one of our children; we thought after a biological one. But life had a different plan for us and we are just running with it. So, after months of research and scouring the Internet and calling agencies across the country we finally made a few decisions. Yes I know that our parents have heard that many times in the last 6 months (!) but we really have this time. We feel that our child is in Thailand!!! Every time we would look through all of the country options we just kept coming back to Thailand. One of the requirements is a minimum two year marriage though, and at the time we started this, that seemed to be a VERY long time away. So we kept researching and calling and requesting info and what do you know, our anniversary is right around the corner now. We are having our home study done by an agency here in Nashville and our placement agency is in Washington. So far we have filled out a TON of papers, forms and questionnaires. Our home visit is in two weeks, so basically we need to start cleaning now! After that, our social worker will put everything together and it will become our "Home Study". That will be shipped off to Washington and we begin to work on our dossier. The dossier is a collection of our home study, background checks, more forms, photos, reference letters, etc...We have also recently sent in a form to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to petition to adopt and it was preliminarily approved! Now we wait a few weeks until we receive our invitation to get fingerprinted. Whew...So that is where we are. We know this is not the most personal way to communicate with everyone, but we know how busy everyone (ourselves included) is these days and we just wanted to make sure that both of our families and all of our friends are included in this. Also, this will be a great way to update everyone once we are in Thailand. It really does take a village to raise a child, and all of you are our village. We look forward to hearing from you, please feel free to call, email or post a comment whenever you feel. We love and miss you all very much and hope that everything is going well with you and your loved ones. Talk to you soon!
Love,
John and Nancy