Weekly Adoption Update

Hi all!

Let's see what's happened through the last week for our adoption. On Monday we had our fundraiser with Sarah's Treasure Shop. Thank you, Sarah! We were able to sell 50 necklaces and we couldn't have done it without you! Thank you!

I took James to the dr. to have his TB skin test read on Monday. On Thursday I took John for his physical, TB skin test, and his vaccines were all updated as well. Just to make things clear, Ethiopia does not require your children at home to be vaccinated, it is just a personal preference to vaccinate our children at this time. There was a time many years ago when we held back due to autistic issues, but they have resolved themselves to the point where we feel the benefit of the vaccination is more beneficial than not receiving them.

John went back to the dr. today to have his TB test read and we were able to get his physical signed off. Last one!!! We're done with all the medical stuff unless we decide to do Malaria meds to go further south into Awassa.

Thursday we sold a coffee that I had bought ahead of time and figured I would have on hand. I still have two whole bean Ethiopian Harrar bags of coffee if anyone local would like one or both. They're $15.70 for each bag.

On Friday I went to our local Sheriff's dept to order a police clearance letter. The sheriff's dept called it a Letter of Good Conduct. That was $49.00 which includes a notarized letter that goes into our dossier. We had to go to the Licensing Desk instead of Records. I found that out after waiting for awhile. The clerk wasn't at the desk when I came in and never bothered to check the sign-in sheet when she came back. After she waited on someone who walked up and got waited on I thought I had better check and see what was going on.

We passed out three envelopes with the directions for writing our Reference letters for our dossier. Each of our friends will write one and they will have to be notarized as well. We're just about ready to contact our agency and set up the homestudy interview appts. we need to comlete our homestudy. Then we can send in our I600A and get a fingerprint appt.

All the tedious little steps but they are all a piece of the puzzle.