Wednesday, March 22, 2006

THE PAPERWORK STARTS NOW


The papertrail started today!!!!!!!!!! I had my first meeting with my social worker, Bonnie. It lasted well over 4hrs, but the time flew by. Even though my life was now an open book, Bonnie being very layed back and easy going made the whole process much less threatening or intimidating than I had anticipated......needless to say I now have a list of documents the lenght of my arm that I need to start getting in order.
-References-1 family member
-2 longtime references
-2 work references
-1 employment reference
-1 personell department reference to verify employment
-Extensive Medical Forms-for both in province and China
-Local Police Clearance
-Fingerprinting and Interpol Clearance
-Financial Statement
-A signed Guardianship Statement
- A signed Statement of being Single and not in a same sex relationship
-Written Autobiography
- Five pages of Pictures depicting Myself, my Home, Family, Friends, Interests, Leisure Activities

Monday, March 20, 2006

THE JOURNEY BEGINS



Well, the journey now begins. After longing for a child for many years I have made the decision to go ahead with an international adoption of a little girl from China.

As many of you know I am not blessed with the "techy" skills in my family!! But I am taking the plunge and am attempting to set up a blog and maintain it so I can have a record of my "JOURNEY OF A LIFE TIME" to get my daughter, both for her to look back at and also for family and friends to share the experience with me.