The yard sale was a huge success! The Holt family and our family each raised $1000 to go toward our adoption expenses. Thank you so much for donating items to sale and for coming by to see us on Saturday. It was such a blessing to see your beautiful faces!
We sold so much, but we had so much left over, it took us over two hours to pack up everthing. We are planning to have another yard sale on April 30th at the same place, in front of Fountain Climate Control Storage.
Greg and I are so excited! We have received our fingerprint appointment from the USCIS and we are scheduled to go to Birmingham on Monday, April 18th, to do our fingerprints. Hopefully we will receive the results in about 4 weeks.
We have just had a couple of unwelcome surprises in our adoption journey, but thankfully we think everything will work out with no lost time. We just found out that Alabama requires all notarized documents to be county certified before the Secretary of State office will state certify them. When they "county certify" and "state certify" the documents, they are saying that the notary on the document is commissioned in that county and state to notarize and they are "legal". So, now we have an extra step in our process we had not planned on. So, we are going through all the notarized documents we have received to find out in which county each notary is commissioned. We have documents that have been notarized in Birmingham, Montgomery, Elmore and Portland, Oregan. We are so thankful we found out this info now, instead of next week. Fortunately, we plan to be in Birmingham Monday to do our fingerprints, so we can get our homestudy county certified in Jefferson County.
While I was finding all this out, I also found out that our homestudy agency is not a 501c3 non-profit agency and that the home study agency is supposed to be. What!! Major PROBLEM!! I thought this was going to be a major set back and that we would have to do our home study all over again. On the information that the home study agency submitted to our adoption agency, they had marked that they were a 501c3 agency by mistake. So, today our adoption agency got on the phone with Chinese and Americans and found out that China actually doesn't require that the home study agency be 501c3, but that they do require it of the adoption agency, the agency they will be working with directly in the adoption. WHEW!!! Our social worker with AGCI (our adoption agency) took a very deep sigh of relief with us. If we had to start over, we would have been set back about three months.
Praise the Lord for His goodness!! We know there will be set backs and things we will have to do over and over and over again. We are praying that this doesn't come back to haunt us later!
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your prayers!!! They are much needed!
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