Here are the things I got completed this weekend. I wish that I could do the strike-through in this to cross out the things I've completed (help anyone?), but since I can't do that, the things I have finished are in italics. Unfortunately I also found something else we had to do that was hiding in one of the forms, so I added that to the end. Hope that makes sense!
-fill out the application for adoption including 5 references
-Get Affidavits notarized
-contact a social worker about a home study
-get fingerprinted for a criminal background check
-get child maltreatment forms notarized and submitted
-get a physical done
-get a TB test done
-Write a Letter to Birthparents
-Write an autobiography about each of our backgrounds
-Create SIX-TEN copies of a photo booklet (the book is just about completed, but I didn't know we would have to have so many copies of it!)
-Fill out a Profile of the Adoptive Family
-Read Dear Birthmother and fill out a book report on it
-Read The Open Adoption Experience and fill out a book report on it
-Read another book about adoption and fill out a book report on it
-Fill out a questionnaire about our preferred level of openness
-Fill out a profile of the child we would consider adopting
-Fill out a budget
-Get our bank to fill out a reference letter
-Fill out a financial statement
-Copy our driver's licenses, social security cards, and birth certificates
-obtain verification of employment letters which note when our employment began, current position, and salary earned
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There's nothing like the adoption experience to make you feel like you're under a microscope, is there? We've been there, though, and although it seems overwhelming it really is necessary to make you work through the process.
We have a copy of Dear Birthmother and several other adoption books if you need any.
Wow--only a few days have gone by, and you've already knocked several things off of that list. I'm impressed!
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