Almost there

We have submitted our final documents to complete our portion of our homestudy. We are just waiting for our social worker to complete our write up, which I am HOPING will be done by the end of this week. Once it's done, it will take about a week to get our home study approved by our agency.

We are waiting for one more reference letter, which we anticipate receiving this week. Then we will take most of our Dossier documents to the Oregon State Secretary of State to receive the OR state seal of verification. We'll do this in person, so should get it done the same day.

In the meantime we have mailed off the rest of our Dossier documents to the Washington State Secretary of State to receive the WA state seal of verification. I'm not sure how long it takes them to process and return these to us -since we couldn't do it in person, but we're hoping not long.

Once we get the documents back from the WA State Secretary of State, we should be able to assemble our entire Dossier and send it to our agency, who will then send it to Ethiopia on our behalf. At that point, if I understand correctly, I think we will be added to "THE List".

Being on "THE LIST" means that we'll be waiting to be matched with our precious daughter who is waiting for us in Ethiopia. So, we're almost there.