Hello world!

We have SO much information swirling around right now – mountains of paperwork, deadlines, country hiatuses, social workers, home studies – and the list keeps growing! I wanted to start this blog to personally be able to go back and reflect on the process but also a way (when we let the cat out of the bag), for our family and friends to be able to peek in and see where we are with the process.

Today I spoke with the agency that will be doing our home study. She made it very clear to expect paperwork, paperwork, and then more paperwork. Bulgaria (like many European countries) takes a 6 week hiatus in the summer so we’re going to be pushing through and attempting to get everything as close to completed before then that we can. I anticipate the backlog after that will be huge. The very first thing we need to do is basically ask permission from Germany to adopt a child from another country and bring them here. This seems to be a bit of a formality since neither of us are German, just here on military orders. She said she has never seen it be denied for service members/US government contractors so let’s hope that don’t pick ours to be the one to deny! I keep reminding myself to take baby steps…fill a bit in on the paperwork at a time, organize one cabinet at a time for our home study…and eventually, we’ll be where we need to be!