Fingerprinted by INS

A few weeks ago, we received a letter from the Department of Homeland Security stating that we must present ourselves for fingerprinting. Well, that was interesting! So on our way home from vacation yesterday, we stopped in at the nearest INS (Immigration and Naturalization Services) Application Support Center in York, PA to be fingerprinted. Actually, … Read more

“Meet the Robinsons”

Friday night was “date night,” and we went to see the movie Meet the Robinsons. After having seen the previews we decided that we wanted to watch this one. We especially loved the woman with the caffeine patches (which you may have seen in the commercials/previews). No side effects there! We enjoyed the movie, although … Read more

Adoption paperwork

We made a lot of progress on the required paperwork for the adoption process today. The top priority, at this point, is a pre-application to Americans for International Aid & Adoption (AIAA), which basically puts us on a waiting list for a formal application (after a screening process). AIAA is the agency that we have … Read more

Adoption Home Visit Completed!

This morning, we completed another big step in the adoption process. Our home visit is now behind us. A social worker from our adoption agency visited us this morning and spent a few hours talking about our backgrounds, life experiences, and our hopes/plans for the future. We also talked about which country we will adopt … Read more

Adoption Home Visit Scheduled

The next big step in our adoption process is the home visit by a social worker from our adoption agency. We recently scheduled this visit for Monday, 19 March 2007! This visit will cover many details about the rest of the process and will get us started on completing the ton of paperwork that is … Read more

Adoption Group Sessions Completed

The first leg of the journey completed! Last evening, we along with five other families, completed the four group sessions. They consisted of one all-day session and three evening sessions. Some of the topics we covered were the adoption process, positive adoption language, medical information, bonding and attachment, discipline, loss and grieving, and the search … Read more