Education--Check, check!

Good morning! I have good news to report. I finished the third educational component of our home study. We had to complete a 20 chapter approx. 180 page workbook entitled, "With Eyes Wide Open". This was in addition to the 12 hours online classes and the book our social worker wanted us to read. I definately feel more prepared to adopt internationally and I must say that doing a happy dance was an understatement. I was thrilled!

It's a little challenging juggling it all right now, but God has been good to me. My family has been understanding too, so that is helpful. I'll eventually get the house picked up again, right? So....we are almost finished with our home study. The only thing we lack is our fingerprints back from the FBI. Once those come back, we'll be good to go. Please send up a quick prayer that whoever received our envelope would see a sense of urgency and get those back to us.

Now, we're working on our dossier. Another snow day would be magnificent to be able to run here and there to get documents notarized and certified. That would probably be my biggest challenge now--that is--making it to places to get things done after school with school activities and Natalie's horseback.

We are on our way though....Each step leads us closer to our new little boy/girl/siblings.

Part of our sermon Saturday night was about finishing the race....We are definately running...Slow and steady it seems, but we're working our way toward the finish line.
With much love,