Crossing off our checklist!

Well we FINALLY got through our last Homestudy visit! (Check that off our to-do list!) Our homestudy was the part of our journey that we were really wanting to move along more quickly... I guess life just got a bit cRaZy for us and it didn't happen as quickly as we were hoping.

Our social worker Kristin was awesome and we are so thankful that she was a part of our journey in this way. I will miss visiting with her and laughing at ourselves with her ;) Also to check off on our list was our 10 hours of training for each of us. We both did a few webinars, I read a few books, and we went to an awesome TBRI (Trust-based Relationship Intervention) training in the Cities a few weeks ago.

Now we will wait for our Homestudy to be finalized so we can send it, along with our dossier materials, to our agency for approval. And then of course everything needs to go through IBESR first, etc. etc. I am SO ready to get all of our paperwork responsibilities DONE so that we can get our file sent off to Haiti and do nothing but pray and wait!! Kristin felt as though we should be able to get everything sent off this summer!! I wonder if Haiti's paperwork process is longer or more complicated than other countries? Seems like we have a gazillion steps.

Our orphanage posted a few nights ago that dossiers are not being accepted into Haiti until August 1st right now. They are trying to get caught up and organized I believe. We are looking at this as a positive because hopefully that means that by the time our information gets there, there won't be such a back-log of dossiers and maybe ours will go through more quickly??

I feel so uneasy about things again. I remember this feeling several weeks ago... Wanting things to move along more quickly. I keep thinking about our little one and praying that God is protecting his or her heart. My heart just hurts to think about all 147 million little ones waiting, hoping, wondering. But I know there is nothing I can do right now to speed things up. I know that I must leave room for God to "do His thing". I know that I must Be Still.