All the Paperwork

Not much to update but we did meet with social worker for home study and went over what that process looks like for home study, Sounds like they will make two home visits and we get to tell our life story and why we want to adopt. We also get to take the time to go over what kind of kiddo we are looking to be matched with and what we can handle for disabilities like developmental delay or autism.

We did our fingerprints for both federal and state so that was easy. We also talked to our agency about starting dossier which includes more paperwork about our life and getting a million medical records. The only thing that isn’t fun about medical is doctor has to notarize their signature so getting doctors to notarize their signature should be interesting.

Hopefully next week we find out if we match with the waiting child, we applied for but if she is matched with another family we are going to wait awhile and go “traditional route”. Traditional route is where your name gets put into Bulgaria MOJ database and when a child comes up that matches your profile than they will match you so the home study is important when it comes to making sure we are describing what we can and can’t handle. It could be 6 months before we are matched with a kid or could be 2 years it depends on how many other families are looking for similar characteristics in kiddos.

My guess is it will be at least a year before we are matched since we are looking for a child between 1-5 years old with mild to moderate developmental delay. We are probably open to other things but that is something we have to sit down and look at but whatever kid we get, needs to be mobile since we have animals and stairs in the house. In a year if we are not matched, we might try again for a waiting child.