Pretty quiet today

Our social worker comes back from vacation tomorrow. After many hours behind our computers we finished and handed in our questionaire. It turned out to be something like twenty pages. It seemed a bit much but we did the best that we could to keep the answers simple and concise. Hopefully she will approve. Nothing much else is new.
Here's a random photo of me with a pike I caught while fishing in Wisconsin with my brother in law.
Later,
J

Making decisions about making decisions...

After much research and discussion we chose our placement agency. I’m not sure what the rules are on talking about agencies so I will omit their name for now. We had it down to three agencies all which had excellent programs. It was a very difficult decision to make. Actually, difficult does not even begin to describe it. It is so hard to make a choice like this because once a choice is made you know that there are children that are being passed up through the other agencies. The reality is that we can’t adopt all the little ones. Then you start thinking about how many children there are that need parents and it really does a number on your heart. Many factors came into play when we decided but I feel that we made the right decision. So we filled out another application to the placement agency that we chose and faxed it. Surprisingly we heard from them right away which was nice. We will be looking at the "contract" they sent us and we will decide what we will do next.

Jason

Progress is good...

I got a part time job today...It's for a good cause so I'll leave it at that.
AND I just got back from sending out our I600A. In the words of my brother in law... "That's HUGE!!!"
For those who may not know, it's an application for Homeland Security approval. This is the filter that everything and I mean everything goes through. It's kinda like telling the United States "Hello, we would like to adopt a child. Oh, and by the way here's a pile of money." Please pray that the application goes through the system without a hitch. If everything goes well I guess that Dubbya's office will approve and we'll be on our way.
Needless to say we are excited.
Speaking of excited... I'm excited to go to bed. I've been up for over 28 hours.

Night night.

Jason

My first blog

This is my first official blog. This makes me laugh inside. I never thought I would be doing one of these. Not that there is anything wrong with blogs. It's just different for me I guess.

The purpose of this blog is three fold... the first purpose is to document for myself the day to day or step by step journey to our (hopefully successful) international adoption. The second is for this to be a place for family and friends to check in for information and where we are in the process of our adoption. Lastly, this is just a place for me to vent or just air out my thoughts.

Let's see what happens.

Jason