Looking, Waiting, and Praying Posted about about 4 years ago

It's been a couple of months since we last posted an update, and we thought that you may be wondering what we have been up to.  Since our home study was approved in mid November, Tina and I have looked at hundreds of waiting kids' profiles.  It is not easy to look at all those kids and read a little bit about them, to know these kids are waiting for their forever family, and knowing that they m...

Home Study Approved! Posted about over 4 years ago

This week we received an email from our social worker that her boss approved our Home Study.  Our social worker came over this afternoon, and we signed our official home study to send to Downey Side.  We are now beginning the process of looking for a child or a sibling pair.  We are excited for this next part of our journey.  Thank you for praying us through this far.  We ask for prayers for Go...

Big Meeting with Social Worker Posted about over 4 years ago

On October 23, we had a big meeting with our social worker.  Each one of us had to talk with the social worker alone.  She had a long list of questions for each of us especially Tina and I.  Tina's interview took the longest.  Of the five hours the social worker spent with us, over 2 hours were with Tina.  I joked with Tina that it was because she's the oldest.  She had the most to talk about. ...

Our adoption just got updated to Paperwork Complete Posted about over 4 years ago

All our paperwork was received including all our references. Today we met our social worker for the first time. We are her first adoption family even though she’s been working in social work for over 11 years. She was able to inspect our home and we met all the requirements. We started the conversation for our home study and planned our next two meetings. By this time next month, we should begi...

Turned in ALL the Paperwork Posted about over 4 years ago

We are moving right along now.  On Monday, we were able to email ALL of our paperwork.  There is a lot of paperwork to fill out or to get filled out by others (police department, doctor's office, fingerprinting).  Also this included the certificates from all nine online classes that we had to take.  Tina and I both agreed that we wish we would have had these classes before we had Matteo and Lia...

We have signed with Downeyside Adoption! Posted about almost 5 years ago

After friends of ours who have had a heart for fostering/adopting teen kids found Downeyside and started the process with them, we decided to learn more about Downeyside.  As stated on their website, Downey Side is the only national adoption agency exclusively devoted to recruiting families for youth 7 to 17 years old who need permanent families.   Downey Side’s philosophy is rooted in the c...