Aaron and I want to wish everyone a happy holiday and a very Happy New Year! We thank you for your support and wish everyone waiting to be matched with their angel a wonderful new year. We thank birth moms who allow adoptive parents to allow us to grow our family through the gift of adoption.
Adoption is a gift and a decision we all have to make. The relationship you form with a birth mom is one that will last a lifetime.
Happy New Year!
We have exciting news. We are home certified as adoptive parents in Arizona! 
The certification is good for 18 months and can be renewed for 2 times for 1 year each. Now we will send a copy of our certification to our lawyer who then will let us know th next steps.
We are very excited and thank our friends and family for all their love and support.
We completed all our case worker adoption meetings and now all the information and paperwork will be going to the court. Our case worker said by December we should be receiving our home certification to be adoptive parents!
Aaron and I are so excited and know there will still be time to find a match BUT it is really happening! We are going to be parents and have a family one day which words cannot describe. We are sooo excited and can’t wait to be connected to a birthmother and child.
We are very excited to start our home certification to be adoptive parents! Our case worker will be coming tomorrow for 2.5 hours to meet us and discuss more of the process and then we are going to meet her at the office on Wed for the individual meetings and then the papers go to the court.
We will ask a few more questions about when we should expect to be officially home certified and how long will it take for the court to approve us but it is really happening! We are on our way to becoming adoptive parents.
We put our home certification application in about a month ago and we are now starting the home certification process with completion for December! Our case worker just called and she is VERY nice! All our referrals will get their documents to send in this week and we will complete our bios and background info for the case worker to review prior to our first home visit.
Our journey of having a family through adoption has begun! We are so excited and will keep everyone updated on the progress.
We decided to start the adoption process and went to the state orientation where they promoted Foster Care the entire time. Gave us some encouragement toward starting the adoption process but didn’t get enough information so we did more of our research online.
Connected with a referral service in California called Everlasting Adoption and luckily they were honest enough and smart enough to find that they couldn’t work with us since we are located in Arizona. But they helped us find an adoption lawyer, Dan Ziskin located in Phoenix.
We met with the lawyer and found out some wonderful and helpful information which gave us much hope in moving forward with the adoption process. We will begin the home certification course shortly and have been following Mr. Ziskin’s recommendations of “marketing” for a birth mother. At first it sounded a little odd but since we are not using an agency who would be doing the marketing for us, this made more sense.
Now its just patience and excitement all wrapped up into one emotion.