We heard from the adoption agency today that our initial application (complete with first program fee) has been received. Huzzah! This now means the following:
- We start the main dossier (the gigantomongous* pile of paper that gets sent to China
- We take a 10-hour parenting class
- We can start our our home study, whereupon a social worker drudges out horrible childhood memories** and ensures that there is no ritual sacrificing of goats going on in the backyard*** to make sure that we will be good parents
Round two: FIGHT!!
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National Geographic and the reporter Lisa Ling did an episode of Explorer called "China's Lost Girls," which was a very eye-opening look into what will happen when we go to China. This was shot in 2006; the main difference today is that now, through the traditional program, your wait might be up to five years. If you can find this whole program it's rather fascinating and more than a little touching. This will be us!
- Kevin
* gigantomongousness is measured in metric, rather than imperial units
** including, but not limited to, my brother sitting on my chest and arms and sticking blades of grass up my nose
*** there isn't
Are you going through the "traditional" program?
ReplyDeletek - That made me cry! I am so excited for you!
ReplyDeleteNot like how your dear wife use to cry when I looked at her though...you know one of those childhood memories.
We're actually going through what's called the Waiting Child program. I'll post about what that means tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteAlso, when Kevin says 5 years, that is if we had sent our dossier in 5 years ago. It goes up every month.
I haven't watched the movie yet, but I totally thought you were Hmong and did that whole goat thing...whoops... ;)
ReplyDeleteIf any of you have streaming Netflix, you should be able to still watch Lost Daughters of China. It really is very well done.
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