Home Study Work Is Well Underway...

This week has been full of home study prep!  I feel like we've made good progress so far!  Here's our current list of paperwork, and our progress:

Release forms (4 forms): done
Health forms: appt April 3 for Doc to fill these out
Criminal Background Checks: appt March 27 for fingerprinting and submission
Employer References: Sarah-emailed to main office this week
                                     Ryan-to be filled out Sunday
Personal References: emailed forms to them this week, they should all be turned in next week.
Financial Statement: done
Copy of Taxes: done
Self-study Questionnaire: working on it...
Marriage License: done
Birth Certificates: done

Whew!  All we've got to do is finish the self-study!  Everything else is done, or scheduled!  We haven't met with our home study agency, or our adoption agency yet.  Our adoption agency Ghana program coordinator is actually IN Ghana, and returning this week, so we'll meet with her soon.  Also, we'll meet with our home study coordinator soon too.  We will also have training/education to complete, and personal visits for the home study as well.  Praying we can get it all taken care of soon, so our home study will be complete in record time!  God is at work, for sure! 

Next comes our dossier (the packet of information that is sent to Ghana) preparation...I've looked at the list of required documents, and we're pretty much taking care of them with the home study.  We will have a couple of forms that we'll need to have notarized for the dossier, but that's easy, peasy!  Just gathering and signing! 

All in all, I'm pleased with how things have progressed this week.  I'm loving this journey, even though it's daunting and exhausting!  I've also been searching around online, and reading up about Ghana and some of the ministries that Generations is partnering with.  I'm so excited to see what God's  doing and be part of it!  Please, check out Feeding the Orphans!  It's really an amazing ministry! 

Please keep praying for us, for our daughter, and for those caring for her now.  Remember, you can still contribute to our adoption fund, through paypal (send a gift to sarahtalexATyahooDOTcom), through snail mail, Just Love Coffee, or the jewelry we're selling (see our facebook pages!). 

Also, share our blog with your friends!  We'd love to have people we don't even know praying for us!