So a few things have happened, On Friday we got a paper from the Government, allowing us to have a homestudy done. This doesn't approve us it just allows the social worker to do our homestudy. Then on Monday our Child welfare checks came and we all passed. That means that none of us have had any incidents with children's services. Nothing very interesting, but it does get 2 things checked off our very long "to do" lists. and I do love checking things off lists. So now we are waiting to be assigned a social worker from Alberta to come and check us out. The local (Alberta) agency that we are working with is Christian Adoption Services (CAS). The international agency that we applied to work with is called Mission of Tears (MOT). We are currently waiting to be accepted to work with MOT. They need to review our application and I think we should hear in about 2 weeks?
Right now we are considering adopting from South Africa. MOT is the only agency allowed by the South African government to facilitate adoptions in their county. The big pile of paperwork sent and required for adoptions is called a dossier (Doss-EE-AA) I'm not exactly sure what is all need for this but it is the "big pile" that you need to get notarized and translated and photocopied. I have read too many blogs about dossier's getting lost in the mail. So for now I wait for the agencies to get back to me. The first of many waits. hhhmm how patient am I?