We are officially on our way in a formal way! Today I mailed the application, fee, and pictures to Children's Hope International. It should take about 2 weeks to process and then we'll start the official paper trail. We decided to go with Children's Hope because of their expertise in Colombian adoption which Bethany Christian Services appeared not to have. We would have been the first adoption from our area to Colombia through BCS whereas CHI (Children's Hope International) has very few programs but does each program well. Other benefits of CHI (if you're interested):
- In-country staff, housing and hand-holding. (Someone will meet us at the airport and basically drag us around to where we need to go, there will be a place for us to stay already arranged.)
- Weekly updates sent to our email.
- Lower program fees.
- Personal connection and smaller agency feel.
Next on the "To Do" list will be to prepare for our homestudy and dossier... although what all that consists of is still somewhat of a mystery so I guess for now we WAIT to hear back from the agency.
Nicole
PS I didn't have a good picture, but thought this one was funny.
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