Yay!! We are scheduled for our first homestudy appointment for Friday June 24th. This is really, really exciting. The homestudy will take 6 weeks (3 visits every other week). During that time, we will be filing our immigration pre-authorization papers (I-600A), getting our fingerprints done, reading over the homestudy, compiling the rest of our dossier, sending off for passports, and…refinishing our basement and remodeling a new church building. Am I a little busy? Nah…

We are already blessed by this process. The more time I have to think about it, the more excited I get! God has been keeping me busy by faithfully giving me orders for purses. This is very, very cool.

I can’t think of much else. I do know that we are using Lutheran Family Services as our homestudy agency (we didn’t have a HOLT branch in our area). They provide an fantastic service of letting us do our FBI finger prints there for $60 less than what we would pay at an immigration branch office. They also are allowing us to do most of our education classes online. We will be taking one on-campus workshop on August 29th. The other four classes: With Eyes Wide Open, The Journey of Attachment, Medical Issues, Finding the Missing Pieces; will all be taken by us before August 29th. Wow…o.k. I’m a little busy.

Thanks for ALL of your support! We are very grateful.