We Have a Social Worker!

It has been another successful week! First and most importantly, we received our Home Study invoice...I've never been so excited to receive a bill before! LOL! Basically our invoice is prepayment for our home study interviews and the home study report that will be part of our dossier to the Philippines. With the invoice we found out who our social worker is and we are so excited that it is the same social worker who taught our classes last weekend! She has such an amazing heart and we are thrilled to go through this journey with her by our side. She just went to the Philippines in October as part of an ambassador program for our agency. They become ambassadors for older children that need forever families. Now she is working to adopt two of those children herself!

We still haven't found a psychologist that can perform both of the evaluations we need BUT in the process of looking, we found out that our health insurance will cover all the time we need with an in-network psychologist and we only have to pay a $30 copay! This is a major answer to prayer as we were expecting to have to pay it out-of-pocket which is very expensive.

I was also able to get a phone number for someone at our sheriff's office to help us get our police clearance letter. A dad at our the boys' preschool is a sheriff, so he gave us the phone number. The Captain that I got a hold of is being so helpful and is ensuring the day we come into the office to get it that either he or one of his Lieutenants will be there and ready to assist us. We talked on the phone for about 5 minutes just "chatting". Yet another example of the favor that God has given us in this process!!

Our dossier is coming along and references and other documents are slowly starting to trickle in! We are already learning so much from this journey...every step requires faith and complete trust in God! I hope by next week to have some pictures of what I'm making for a fundraiser...I'm excited to see what everyone thinks. Thanks so much for your prayer and support!

In Him,
Alaina