One more week of paperwork...yeah!

All paperwork is due next Friday so we are in the home stretch now! Yeah! I've spent a good chunk of this week working on gathering pictures of us that the agency will use for our profile...154 of them actually in all...whew. Yesterday, I sent them off to be printed at CVS and now am working on writing labels for the back of each of them that says who, what and where. I've gotten all the county background checks back. Fulton county was the most difficult one. They sent it without being notarized even though I highlighted the phrase saying it was required. When I called, the lady who did it wasn't there and no one seem to be able to tell me when she'd be back and there was no one else who could do it. So frustrating! I calledt the agency to explain and they said it would be fine to not have that one notarized since we are not doing an international adoption. They will just call to verify the info themselves. Good news!

This weekend Tim and I need to finish the formal application including what physical and health impairments we will and will not accept. I'll put that piece off because it's so hard to make those decision....will we accept a blind child, missing an arm, cleft palate, food allergies, and on and one goes the list. Thankfully it's not the final decision and we'll be able to discuss things on a case by case basis as we go. We also need to write some paragraphs about ourselves and how we see each other and our relationship. Almost done though....whew...one more week of paperwork to go!

On a fun note, we will be spending the day tomorrow at our first training for the Reinaissance Faire that we are volunteering for. We are going to be part of the peasant guild this year which should be lots of fun! There is one training a month leading up to the festival the first weekend in October. Mark your calender now and come join the fun!