Such a relief!!! Our home study social worker Molly is absolutely amazing! Brent and I could sit and talk with her for hours. If anyone is in need of a home study near Pittsburgh, let me know and I will forward her contact!
I decided to share this blog with a few other adoptive families.
We haven't really told anyone about this adoption due to the uncertainty of Guatemalan adoptions so please try to keep this between all of us until Brent and I decide to share our journey to our beautiful little girl with everyone else! Its just so hard and frustrating answering every one's questions but all of you in the process know all about it!!!
Well now its time to clean the house for our home study update tomorrow.! I will be so happy when I have this dossier completed!
This morning Cheryle, the kids and I headed over towards campus to shop and locate the post office. Our POA is officially on its way to the Guatemalan Consulate and then from there onto our agency.
I received an email from our agency yesterday that they received our signed contract and our paper work is on its way to Guatemala! So exciting!
Due to the problems with our Kazakhstan adoption Brent and I are trying not to get too excited and go over board shopping. So today I only picked up a Penn State bib to send to Auri's foster mom.
Yesterday I fed exed the contract back to our agency, officially accepting Elvia Leticia Garcia as our daughter!
So then it was off to the bank to transfer half of our program fee and one months foster care that we have to pay until we are paper ready.
And since we had a trip to PSU planned with the Wilson family, we took a road trip to the Capitol to get our POA certified. Hopefully tomorrow Cheryle can help me find a post office here to send the POA to the Guatemala Consulate.
We received our adoption packet tonight. There were a few mistakes to correct. Tonight we also learned the full name of our little angel and her mothers. Its quite a different feeling to see her mothers name there as well. All we know about Elvia's situation is that she came from poverty. I am so thankful her mother has decided to give her a better life and we will be forever grateful to the gift she has given us.
Auri Elizabeth Heinrich - we can't wait to bring you home!!!
