Monday, September 07, 2009
Slowly moving forward with Boo's adoption.
So, I've been out of commission in the blogger world lately. What can I say, we've been busy on this end.
Today was a good day. Oronzo took both kids out and kept them busy for about 4 hours so that I could clean our home from top to bottom!! I guess you could consider this a fall cleaning, but I had a specific purpose in mind for the clean fest.
We had another home inspection today, you see, and we passed! In the past 4 1/2 years, we've had 4 home inspections. One for Snuggle Bug's adoption, and 3 now for fostering (the initial one and now 2 renewals). So, by now, I know exactly what they're looking for and I made sure our house was in order.
The medicines were locked up appropriately. Our pool gates were padlocked, probably not necessary considering we have self-latching, self-closing gates, but with the state you can never be too prepared. We made sure the smoke detectors in every room had functional batteries. All the cleaning supplies were up out of reach. Our meager stash of liquor (wine and stuff for mixed drinks when we have parties) was up on a high shelf out of reach. The fire extinguisher is a current model. Our evacuation plan was prominently displayed. Every room of the house was neat and tidy. Everything was in order and we passed! Hooray!
Our foster licensing worker was in our home for about 30 minutes, and after doing the walk-through of the house, he sat and reviewed the mound of paperwork that we had to fill out for the relicensing. All was in order (yep, we're getting good at this).
We've been told that once we get certified for fostering for another year, that also transfers over to get us certified for adoption for Boo! :) We don't have to go through the same process twice in one year, thank goodness.
We're keeping our fingers crossed that we'll be allowed to finalize Boo's adoption by mid-November, in time for a huge adoption celebration that our city is holding in the park. It'll all depend on how well the foster agency and the adoption agency work together in passing information back and forth for certification. And it'll depend on whether or not that appeals ruling will be returned in time.
We'd appreciate your prayers. It's moving forward...just rather slowly! We can't wait for Boo to be a permanent part of our family!
By the way, check back later this week. I have some books to review and give away!
Labels: adoption #2, foster children, foster-to-adopt, fostering
10 Comments:
Hoping that everything goes quickly for the adoption! How exciting!!
Thats awesome! Praying for you all.
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Those inspections can be pretty stressful! We had one over the summer and thankfully, like yours, everything went well.
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Oh, that's HUGE news! Good luck
That's pretty exciting. Hope you'll share how everything goes soon. Good luck on all your life's endeavors.By the way, these free gift cards might interest you too. Have a blessed day!
Thats wonderful,I can't wait to hear what happens.Will you adopt/foster again? We just had our 3rd or 4th re-eval too,for some reason I thought it was a basic visit,and did not clean up like I would have-and SW of course wanted a full tour-I was sweating bullets,but we passed.I too took a blog break-somehow lost my blog and name in the process-lovingmyamazinglife-is now tinroofcabin. Take care,Jill
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This is so exciting. I've been keeping you in my prayers. Blessings!
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