the ball feels like it's really rolling now. tonight i said "gosh, do you think i should call our home study worker and see where things are?" and lo and behold we already had a message on the machine from her. (we're really bad at checking that darn thing.) she got our first inch of paperwork in the mail today and is ready to set up the 2nd meeting. i called her back and left a voicemail. then i went through our list of things yet to do and realized we're alot farther along than i thought. paul keeps bragging about how he has next monday off, something about a banking holiday, but what he doesn't know is that's going to be his due date for reading the rule book and signing off on it. it's literally the most boring thing i've ever read. i even had to read the HUD regulations for the title agency and even THAT was more interesting than the foster rule book. so he doesn't know it yet, brag all you want buddy, monday is going to be assigned reading day. hahahahahaha! i LOVE to tease.
here's what else we have to get done, in no particular order:
get physicals;
fill out our virginia (that's not so much for lovers) background checks and sign them in front of a notary;
take a cpr class -and i emailed him (because his voicemail was full) tonight to see if we can take it this saturday;
2 or 3 more home study visits;
print our family photo;
ok-but here's the big part: fill out where the kids will go to school and/or daycare, and the problem is that darn looking-for-a-new-job thing. where they go to school hinges on where we live which hinges on where i'm working. sooooo...we're a little stumped on that part.
and a few more things i can't think of. but we're getting there. we might actually be able to get all of this done by march 2nd!
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
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3 comments:
wow, that is definitely a lot to work through - what a cool foster photo though - I wonder if anyone else's looks that awesome. They gotta be like, "uh, ya!" when they see that pic.
Let me know if you want to talk! Obviously, I didn't do all the paperwork and go through all the training, but I can definitely speak to how bringing kids in changes your life! I'm proud of you guys....
Sounds exciting! You could make a trip back to Champaign and I"ll notarize your papers for you. I can do that. (For realz)
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