We have finished the 10 hours of training required for updating our international home study! The training was wonderful!! We reviewed the whole paperwork process, specifically talking about how our child(ren) will enter the United States and what kind of visa they will receive (an IR4). There were several discussions on keeping the adopteed child's homeland culture alive in our family. There were two different panels - one group of adult international adoptees and one group who have recently adopted internationally - who spoke and shared about their experiences. A lawyer explained the whole readoption process, something not only recommended by our agency but required by us because of the way the adoption happens in Ethiopia. A doctor and therapist spoke about delays related to early orphanage life and shared many strategies for helping the children. And best of all, we met a couple from Lyons, Illinois adopting from Ethiopia whose marriage and adoption journey is virtually identical to ours - is that God at work or what!!!
NEXT STEPS: We will mail/fax our certificates to our home study worker Faith and see if she needs anything else from us. If not, she will be able to finish writing our home study in the next few weeks!
PRAISE AND PRAYER: Praise for the couple we met at our training - we already know our children will grow up playing with each other! Please keep the orphanage and caregivers who are loving on our child(ren) in your prayers.
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