Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Ethio Meeting

On June 22 we were lucky enough to be able to meet with several families who are in the process of adopting from Ethiopia or who have already completed their adoptions. We had fantastic food at Blue Nile Ethiopian Restaurant in Columbus.

Our homestudy is to be presented in one week! It is so exciting and frightening. We are now starting to collect the documents for our dossier.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Homestudy-Interviews

Last night we met with our social worker, Kim, from Graceworks Lutheran in Springfield. We completed our interviews. It went very smoothly. Joel was a little nervous about this part (I was more nervous about her coming to our home). It feels great to have this portion of the process nearly complete!

Sunday, June 15, 2008

In the beginning

We are Amy & Joel Harcar. We will be adopting from Ethiopia sometime in the next year (hopefully).

We were accepted on May 9, 2008 by CHSFS (our adoption agency). On May 14 we were accepted by Graceworks Lutheran in Springfield, OH to begin our homestudy. We passed our homestudy safety audit on Thursday, June 5th. Our interviews take place tomorrow and then I think we are nearly complete with our homestudy!
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