As expected, our state and federal background clearances/fingerprints came back clean. We reviewed the draft of our home study and offered suggestions for the final report. It will be mailed by our home study agency to our placing agency in Kansas tomorrow after the small adjustments are made. We finished our application for the placing agency and the past couple of weeks have been working on our scrapbook. It was an extremely time-consuming project but was well worth the time. It turned out amazing! I have a wonderful friend who helped make it just perfect. Heather spent many, many hours at our kitchen table helping put our life into a book. Each page goes into detail about who we are. We also included the Dear Birth Mother letter in the book. Each adoptive couple is required to write this letter which tells the birth mother about us, our life, our faith, our families, etc. The scrapbook and letter are all the birth mother gets to see of us so we tried very hard to give her all the information she would need to help make her decision. We brought the finished product here to Kentucky to show family and friends over the holidays and mailed it today to the agency in Kansas along with our application and application fee. Once all the pieces have been received by The Adoption Centre of Kansas, our file will be active with them. Then, birth mothers can begin looking at our book while we sit back and wait for one of them to pick us. We know that God already has a specific child picked out for our family and we can't wait to meet him/her.
Link to pictures of scrapbook - http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=96971&id=1512782254&l=3442274919
