HOMESTUDY VISIT
I am busy cleaning the house today. Tomarrow our Social Worker Nan is coming to the house to check it out. I never thought in a million years that I would ever have a sw visit my house to see how we live. She will want to see where Kate will sleep ( right now it is a empty room with a few toys to entertain Syd and Chapel when they come over) and she will want to make sure we have smoke and carbon monoxide detectors and fire extinguishers on both floors.
I picked up our physical reports yesterday and Ken and I are very healthy. I will take my documents next week to be county certified and then I will make the 2 1/2 hr drive to Frankfort Ky to have the state seal put on all our documents. I would rather drive everything then mail it and be nervous that it gets lost. I have spent the last six weeks collecting these papers and I would have a heart attack if anything happened to them. Well I am going to start mopping.
Later
Sarah
Thursday, June 29, 2006
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
What is my Dossier doing at the CCAA while I wait?
While it is not practical to ask the CCAA to notify an agency of where a certain dossier or set of dossiers is located in their process, the CHI Beijing office was able to provide me with the CURRENT schedule for your dossier at the CCAA.
1. CHI Beijing office takes your dossier to the CCAA.
2. Your dossier enters the CCAA administration office and can wait for up to 1 month to be logged in. Once you have a log in date (LID) your official wait begins.
3. Your dossier waits to begin the process. This currently takes 3 to 4 months.
4. The CCAA administration office passes your dossiers to Bridge of Love where they verify your dossier's translation. This processtakes from 2 to 3 months.
5. Your dossier is passed to Department I for review. This processtakes from 1 to 2 months.
6. Your dossier is passed to Department II for matching. This too can take from 3 to 4 months. Your dossier is matched several weeks before step #7.
7. Your referral is sent to the administrative office to be signed by all the CCAA directors and mailed to CHI. This can take several weeks.
8. You receive your referral - a very happy day! You return your acceptance of referral letter to the CCAA.
9. The CCAA sends your travel approval to come to China to complete your adoption. This process takes about 1 month.
10. You travel to China to meet your child and complete the adoption.This is approximately 6-8 weeks after referral.The current wait from LID to referral is 12 months as of 5/2006.
Here is one web site that shows a picture "tour" of the CCAA:
www.familyoffour.homestead.com/June05CCAA.html
While it is not practical to ask the CCAA to notify an agency of where a certain dossier or set of dossiers is located in their process, the CHI Beijing office was able to provide me with the CURRENT schedule for your dossier at the CCAA.
1. CHI Beijing office takes your dossier to the CCAA.
2. Your dossier enters the CCAA administration office and can wait for up to 1 month to be logged in. Once you have a log in date (LID) your official wait begins.
3. Your dossier waits to begin the process. This currently takes 3 to 4 months.
4. The CCAA administration office passes your dossiers to Bridge of Love where they verify your dossier's translation. This processtakes from 2 to 3 months.
5. Your dossier is passed to Department I for review. This processtakes from 1 to 2 months.
6. Your dossier is passed to Department II for matching. This too can take from 3 to 4 months. Your dossier is matched several weeks before step #7.
7. Your referral is sent to the administrative office to be signed by all the CCAA directors and mailed to CHI. This can take several weeks.
8. You receive your referral - a very happy day! You return your acceptance of referral letter to the CCAA.
9. The CCAA sends your travel approval to come to China to complete your adoption. This process takes about 1 month.
10. You travel to China to meet your child and complete the adoption.This is approximately 6-8 weeks after referral.The current wait from LID to referral is 12 months as of 5/2006.
Here is one web site that shows a picture "tour" of the CCAA:
www.familyoffour.homestead.com/June05CCAA.html
Monday, June 26, 2006
Ken and I had our physicals this morning. Basic stuff TB test, urine, liver, Hepatitis, HIV, and blood pressure. We will go back on Wed. for the results of our TB. This is the last form I need notorized before I get everything county certified. Tomarrow we have our individual homestudy meetings.
Sarah
Friday, June 23, 2006
Thursday, June 22, 2006
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
June 21, 2oo6
Why We Chose China
Why China?
Ken and I have been getting many questions about why we are going to China to adopt. "Why not stay here and do a domestic adoption?" There are several reasons for our choice, and I thought I would try and explain how we came to this decision.
1. That is where our daughter is!! In my heart there is no question
2. Once we get through the adoption in China she is ours. Steps have been taken in China to find her birth mother, for example an ad will have been placed in the local paper. It will be determined that the baby was abandoned. The birth mother will not show up three days, six months, or a year later and decide she wants her daughter back.
3. Birth mother’s health is generally better than in America or other countries. From my research I have found that women in China take care of themselves during their pregnancy. Most feel they have one chance to deliver a healthy boy, and they work to make that happen. Babies born with fetal alcohol syndrome, addicted to drugs, and many other transmitted diseases is lower in China. Babies are born with health problems, as with any country, but most are known early.
4. This may be a selfish reason, but I don’t want to have to sell myself to prospective birth mothers. In a domestic adoption more and more women are choosing open adoptions where they pick the family. I am not a salesperson, and I don’t want to advertise my family and myself in order to raise a child. In China the CCAA matches you with your child. I have read many stories about “perfect matches”. It is not quite known how they do it, but I would rather have my child matched with us. Again, this may be a selfish reason, but it is a strong feeling I have and I must go with my gut.
5. We would like a girl and we have a 95% chance in China
Why We Chose China
Why China?
Ken and I have been getting many questions about why we are going to China to adopt. "Why not stay here and do a domestic adoption?" There are several reasons for our choice, and I thought I would try and explain how we came to this decision.
1. That is where our daughter is!! In my heart there is no question
2. Once we get through the adoption in China she is ours. Steps have been taken in China to find her birth mother, for example an ad will have been placed in the local paper. It will be determined that the baby was abandoned. The birth mother will not show up three days, six months, or a year later and decide she wants her daughter back.
3. Birth mother’s health is generally better than in America or other countries. From my research I have found that women in China take care of themselves during their pregnancy. Most feel they have one chance to deliver a healthy boy, and they work to make that happen. Babies born with fetal alcohol syndrome, addicted to drugs, and many other transmitted diseases is lower in China. Babies are born with health problems, as with any country, but most are known early.
4. This may be a selfish reason, but I don’t want to have to sell myself to prospective birth mothers. In a domestic adoption more and more women are choosing open adoptions where they pick the family. I am not a salesperson, and I don’t want to advertise my family and myself in order to raise a child. In China the CCAA matches you with your child. I have read many stories about “perfect matches”. It is not quite known how they do it, but I would rather have my child matched with us. Again, this may be a selfish reason, but it is a strong feeling I have and I must go with my gut.
5. We would like a girl and we have a 95% chance in China
June 21, 2006
Ken and I made the drive to Louisville this morning to have our finger prints taken and sent to the FBI. We have separate home study interviews next week and also a home visit by our Social worker Nan. Our homestudy will be sent to meet up with our finger prints and we will then wait on a I-171 letter saying we are approved to adopt an orphan. We hope to have all our paper work sent to China by the end of August.
Sarah
Ken and I made the drive to Louisville this morning to have our finger prints taken and sent to the FBI. We have separate home study interviews next week and also a home visit by our Social worker Nan. Our homestudy will be sent to meet up with our finger prints and we will then wait on a I-171 letter saying we are approved to adopt an orphan. We hope to have all our paper work sent to China by the end of August.
Sarah
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Ken and I are creating this blog so family and friends can follow our journey to our daughter Katherine Douglas. We are currently in the paper chase right now and hope to have our homestudy done in the next couple of weeks. For those who don't know (I can't believe mom hasn't told you yet) we are adopting a little girl from China. It is a ton of paper work right now and interviews with a social worker. Once we get that done and everything sent to China then we WAIT. As of now the wait time is 12 months and hopefully it will stay that way. We are hoping by next fall/winte to have our girl home. We think this blog will be great when we actually go to China to pick her up because all of you will be able to follow our time there. I am just learning this blog so be patient with me. Hope all of you are as excited as we are to have this new addition to our family.
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