Slow & Steady Wins the Race

Things are slow moving but we are steadily making progress on our adoption. If you'll notice on our adoption timeline, we received our FBI clearances last week and I just emailed in the last of our foreign dossier paperwork to Gladney this morning. So we should be going on the wait list now, right? I wish. :-) There are so many legal things that have to happen with our paperwork before we can officially go on the wait list...and things are moving slow and steady. Here is what our next steps should look like:

Home study completely processed & submitted to CIS

Slow and steady wins the race

CIS sends us a fingerprinting date to have background clearances run through them

Slow and steady wins the race

A few weeks later, CIS issues our approval notice directly to us

Slow and steady wins the race

Now our dossier is complete and can be sent to the Secretary of State to be authenticated

Slow and steady wins the race

Secretary of State sends everything back to us and we get it to Gladney

Slow and steady wins the race

Gladney sends everything to the US Consulate

Slow and steady wins the race

Finally, we are on the wait list!!!!

Slow and steady wins the race

Anything worth doing is not going to be simple and easy. It's going to be hard and require patience & endurance, or it just doesn't mean as much when you finally accomplish what you had set out to accomplish. And every little thing we do brings us closer to our baby girl. All the glory goes to God...He has been so faithful through all of this. Our next hurdle once we are on the wait list is going to be coming up with the rest of the money we will need once we have a referral and need to travel to Ethiopia twice after. We are looking at applying for adoption grants and the rest we will have to leave in God's hands...He is faithful and I know He will provide because He so clearly called us to do this.

We are coming baby girl...as slow and steady as we can.