What's Next?

Next steps for us include filling out each of our Prospective Adoptive Parent Questionnaires (mine's almost done; Hubby's working on his), getting our marriage certificate (form is mailed off), choosing our references and asking them to write letters (2 down; 2 to go), filling out our Application II (the difficult one - not started yet), selecting pictures (slowly working on it), and writing our Dear Birthmother/father letter (haven't started it yet).  Only once we have more money (after our property is subdivided - almost done - and sold) and know when we're moving (after we sell our house & buy) will we do our criminal record checks and medical reports (because those expire after 3 months and need to be current when we start our homestudy).  Only after all of the above do we start our homestudy (during which there are 4 meetings (I think), with one of them being done in our home).