Nothing more, nothing less...

Hi there!

I know I haven't posted anything in quite awhile, but it's because we are in one of the many waiting periods in this adoption process. We should be receiving the completed homestudy approval and a packet from Gladney in the next week or two. This will include our next payment bill, a list of trainings we need to get signed up for, and a letter showing our official approval for the homestudy stage of the process. I have been working on our profile book...and I am almost finished! I am tweaking it now and soon I will send it to my caseworker to review and approve. After that, it's to the printing presses we go! I have to make 7-8 copies of the book, so I'm sure I will have to wait a little for them to be delivered in the mail. I'm thinking we will get the books into the hands of the caseworker by late November, early December. I'm feeling fine about everything so far...not worried or feeling rushed or lazy, so that's nice. One day at a time :) Thanks for staying updated....I'll post again once my book is approved and in print!

Homestudy Happiness

We had our homestudy today with Jennifer.  She was awesome and it was a great time for her to get to know us and to talk about the process. We still have one more section of the homestudy to complete individually with her on the phone, so hopefully we will be able to do that in the next few weeks. It will take about a month to type up and have everything approved from the homestudy process- and I'll be working on my profile book so that we will be finished around the same time. We're excited!!!

Our homestudy is in 2 days!

We're getting ready for our Homestudy on Friday!  Slightly nervous about it, but very excited to move onto a new stage in the process. It will be an all-afternoon get together, but once we're done, we'll be ready to move onto our profile book!  I've picked out paper for the book and ordered pictures- so I just have to get my creative juices flowing to put it together. When I think about the fact that this will be THE BOOK that will make us a family...a little overwhelming.  But, I guess I just need to take it page by page and not worry about the whole thing yet.

:) Thanks for staying in the loop!
Heidi (and Danny too)

Baby Boomer...

We got our first baby gift from our sweet friends Josh and Sara. This little guy or gal doesn't have a chance to not love OU!

Adoption Bug fundraiser

We have two fundraisers up and running now....

The first is on a cute website called Adoption Bug. We have an online store where we are selling t-shirts. Just be sure if you purchase a shirt to use our link instead of the general website so we can get credit.  Check it out:

www.adoptionbug.com/CoxFamily

The next is for coffee lovers! Click below to order some delicious fair-trade coffees...

www.justlovecoffee.com/CoxFamily

thank you for all your support!!!

:) Heidi and Danny

I can't believe it...

We are already approved with all our paperwork. That sentence sounds weird grammatically, but you know what I mean! I was expecting it to take a couple more weeks for them to review- Vicki Carter is the most awesome admin ever! We are matched with our caseworker...Jennifer Hart! Now, it's on to creating our profile book and getting prepared for our homestudy.  Too bad I don't have any energy left to think about the book right now. :( School is wiping me out!
I'm sure I'll get into the swing of things in a few weeks and will be able to begin the most daunting task of creating THE BOOK.

Paperwork is complete!!!

whew...I'm tired.  We are now waiting for the paperwork to be reviewed and approved- and then we will schedule a time for our caseworker to come and do our homestudy process.  On to other things...