I feel like Addie Beth in the picture, looking out with a huge smile, but remaining behind the closed doors, not sure of what's ahead. We just started the first real piece to our adoption-our homestudy. It will probably be around 3-4 months before we're finished with that step. If you're not familiar with the process, here's a brief description: it involves tons of paperwork, physicals, fingerprinting, background checks, 4-6 visits with a caseworker who will ask us tons of questions and will visit our home, and oh yeah...money. Then, we will start having our profile (aka: small book that we make with pictures and words all about us!) shown to birthmothers. From there,...
