The Process Begins

Today we met with the staff at Villa Hope for the first time!  This agency is small, but we felt at home very quickly and the social workers were very friendly and professional.   This meeting mainly consisted of going through all the initial paperwork we would need to get started; first background checks and fingerprinting, then a whole other host of documents to gather, medical info and physicals, TB testing, references, other general info, the home study, oh-and my favorite on of all, both Andrew and I separately get to compose our life stories that need to be 2-3 pages long.  We are now officially drowning in paperwork!  But even in all of this, as our case worker began to talk us through some of the general information about the adoption process for China, I felt the same excitement that I had felt years ago when we had found out that officially, we were expecting Joseph and David.  And so, now the process begins...and in as little as 12 months, we could have a little girl(s) assigned to us, and then go to get her within the next six months!

Amy