Well, I woke up this morning and immediately checked our email. We sent in our application to our placement agency (Children's Home Society & Family Services) last week and I have been on pins and needles to receive confirmation that it got to Minnesota. I love different time zones! At 5:30am this morning (Pacific time) they sent us an email stating that they had received the application, look forward to working with us, and they gave us access to their client website! Which gives me more to read up on and study. YEAH!!!!!
Full approval by the agency pends for all applicants until the home study is completed- but that is moving forward as well and should be sent to them by the end of the year. In the mean time, there is a lot of paperwork to be filled out and appointments to be made. Both Garrett and I have to have full physicals, fingerprints, DMV printouts, employment verification, etc. done, before even the home study can be completed fully. What a tremendous process and testing of perseverance. We are both learning a lot.
Not only that, but we leave early tomorrow morning to board a flight to Maryland. Garrett's interview at USUHS is at 8am on Thursday. It will be an 8 hour interview where he will meet and interview with various people, in various positions at the university. There are a lot of things he has had to do for this school that most others don't require, but it has been interesting and fun to watch him work on it.
The trip should be fun too! While the primary focus is Garrett's interview, my mother is going with us (she has never been to the D.C. area) and we plan on meeting up with Garrett's sister, Lou as well. I have no doubt but that we will see everything we possibly can of our nations capitol.
Please be in prayer for Garrett as he takes on this Goliath. Pray for those of us surrounding him over the next few months as well, that we can be an encouragement and joy to him as we wait for results on how it all went.
Well keep you updated!
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