I am so sorry it has been so long since our last post. It has been crazy around the Carter home with school starting back up. We had our home study on the 17th and everything went really well. We did a mad cleaning the weekend before so we were ready. It was painless not quick but painless. All in all our case worker was her for seven hours. We only had a few things we needed to fix and two of them we did on the spot.
At this point we are just waiting to be licensed. Once we are officially licensed they can submit our home study for little girls who fit our profile. We are excited but also a little nervous. We have put this in God's hands and we trust in Him completely. We don't know when He will add to our family or if there will be one or two little girls. We are so ready to offer the child a loving home and family. The boys keep asking when she is coming? We have to keep telling them we don't know we just have to wait. In the adoption process you do a lot of waiting.
To help you better understand how the process will work I have listed the steps below.
1. Receive our license.
2. Adoption agency submits our home study for potential placement.
3. CPS decides which families will be the best fit for the child.
4. Our agency plus any other agency goes in to represent the proposed family.
5. If CPS choosing our family we met with them and our case worker.
6. They give us the child's information folder. We review the folder and then within 24 hours let them know if want to move forward.
7. We choose to move forward and the child will be given our life book. This book contains pictures of home, family, neighborhood etc.
8. They set up what they call a pre-visit with the child at their current foster home. Nelson and I will go and visit her and get to spend some time.
9. We will have a second pre-visit with the boys. This time we get to take her to the park or to go get an ice cream.
10. We have one more pre-visit. At this point the next time we see her will be her moving into our home.
11. She will live with us for 6 months under a foster status until we legally adopt her.
So as you can see there is still a lot of steps to be taken. Please continue to pray for her and her family. Thank you all for your support and please feel free to ask questions. We want everyone to be part of the adoption and welcome comments and questions.
Sandy Sue
