So, last night before bed, our social worker from Forever Families gave us a call to schedule a time to do our individual interviews for the home study. Clair had read Adeye's post about Julia and understood our desire to expedite this whole process. She suggested that perhaps we should meet early the next morning...talk about expedient! As soon as we were off the phone, I sent a note to work telling them I would be a no-show for the day. I then spent the next several hours filling out all the paperwork I could possibly need for the home study.
This morning we managed to get everyone up and out the door at a reasonable hour. We had to run several errands. We ran to the bank to deposit a wonderful gift from a coworker of mine. We then ran to the church to have the church secretary notarize several of the forms we had. Thanks, Sharon! We were then headed to get our fingerprint cards done for the state of Virginia. This is one of those God's planning moments. We got to the police station at 10am. I figured they did fingerprinting all the time. It is a police station after all. Well, I was mistaken. They only do fingerprinting for the general public on WEDNESDAYS BETWEEN 10AM and 2PM. Amazing. I never have luck like that.
After the fingerprinting, we headed out of Fredericksburg to the Forever Family office in Warrenton. Our poor kids. Carey and I both know how to talk and talk and talk. We took turns. Carey went and interviewed while I filled out some MORE forms and then took the kids to a park down the street. After Carey was done, she took the kids up the street to Subway while I went in and had a great conversation with Clair. She is good people. She rearranged her schedule to get us in today. I can't thank her enough. We finished up after about four hours between us. To give you an idea of the caliber of person Clair is, she was running short on time because she had to run off to help organize and set up a benefit dinner and auction for Haiti. In her spare time.
Once we got home, we spent some time putting things up in the attic to make room so that we can rearrange our house to accommodate our beautiful Julia. All in all, a very productive and very hectic day. Keep those prayers coming for a miracle with this whole process...especially the immigration step!
Sleep well, my little Julia...we are sending our love and prayers to you this night.
~Steve
Tears, tears, tears....God is just way too GOOD!
ReplyDeleteYour are a lucky family to be getting such a wonderful gift!!!! Julia will be such a blessing to your family & community. These children are an inspiration to everyone!
ReplyDeleteSo many more miracles you will see....God will continue to bless you and Julia...if you want to walk on water, step out of the boat-you have! Keep your eyes upon Jesus....oh the miracles to come! You are a great witness to many.
ReplyDeleteGod is good! I love you, Brother! I'm so glad that we're here for each other!
ReplyDeleteI'll do anything I can to help.
CLAIR FROM FOREVER FAMILIES ABSOLUTELY IS AMAZING!! She was our social worker for Aaron - We just brought him home from the Ukraine - We know Adeye - We found Aaron on RR.... www.covenantbuilders.blogspot.com - will be praying for your guys.
ReplyDeleteWatch out - fingerprint stuff in VA is absolutely horrid. CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN NOW!! Don't wait. Just call them and tell them to start advocating for you. Aaron was already transferred when we started with him (Claire worked quickly through our stuff too) and we went through crazy stuff to get that part done. We finally called the Congressman and finally we were able to get that part moving. Do it NOW. Tell them your story. Get other people to call them on your behalf. If you don't - Virginia will SIT. It took us almost 4 months to get what most states get done in a few weeks. This is NORMAL in VA. so don't sit back. My e-mail is covenantb@yahoo.com - WE live in Palmyra, Va. Love that another RR family is now in VA!!
We are just so excited to see a family has been brought forth! We are all just thanking God for answering prayers. What a beautiful family! Julia is blessed and so will you all be blessed to have one another! This little girl has already spoken to so many who have been following Adeye's blog. So many tears have been shed for your daughter, so many gave to a little girl they did not know, & so many prayed for her and her family. Please know you are not alone through this journey you have many people who stand and pray for you along this trip. God will cover and bless you even through the trials but continue seek Him and know He is walking beside you all. We are looking forward to seeing how this story turns out!Thank you for writing so that the wife's who are waiting for their husbands to get on board for adoption can see another man's story! I will be sharing this with my husband! Blessings over you all!
ReplyDeleteOMG! OMG! I just freaked out here in Ukraine! I am so excited to see that Yulia has a family and then I find out you live in the same town that we consider our hometown :) (we actually live in Locust Grove) I am so glad you found a good HS agency, we had the hardest time finding anyone comapssionate and went with a friends sister who was great but the agency she is affilitated with is HORRID. Yay! Yulia/Julia is coming home!
ReplyDeletePraise The Lord! I am so excited to know Julia's family! Thank you so much for hearing the call and answering it! God will bless you so very much. Satan will torture you but please don't give up. God is in control! Thank you thank you thank you! PTL our prayers were answered!
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