Adoption as Plan A: Our Profile Book

Monday, October 31, 2011

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Adoption Timeline

March 2010 - Attended "Adopted for Life"conference and began praying about adopting sooner rather than later
July 2010 - Decided on an agency for Domestic Infant adoption and submitted the preliminary application
Sep. 2010 - Attended the required informational meeting
Dec. 2010 - Submitted formal application
Dec. 25, 2010 - Accepted into the domestic infant program!
March-April 2011 - Home Study classes
Aug. 2011 - Submitted Self Study
Sep. 2011 - Individual Interviews
Oct. 2011 - Home Visit
Nov. 2011 - Profile Book approved
Jan. 2012 - Received call that our Home Study was not complete despite us doing everything on our part. Also, our GBI fingerprints had not been received.
Mar. 2012 - Agency receives GBI prints. Home Study is complete. We let the agency know we're expecting a baby. They tell us we need to put our adoption on "hold" until the birth of this baby.
May 2012 - We meet with the agency and several things are cleared up. It was clarified that we can not continue our adoption until our biological child is at least one-year old. We put everything in God's hands and continue to pray for our future child through adoption!

Monday, October 31, 2011

Our Profile Book

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