And Now We Wait...

The adoption process is a bunch of hurry up and wait.  You work feverishly on something, send it off, and then wait on others to do their part.  Waiting is hard and can be frustrating especially when not everyone feels your sense of urgency.
Our Homestudy is complete and we have received a copy.  A copy will be sent to South Korea soon.  Then, we wait to be matched with a child.  That process can take up to 8 months.  It all depends on if there's a child available that meets our list of disabilities.  There are many children who need homes.  We were pretty open with what we would accept.  However, there are also some disabilities that we know would not be a good fit with our family. Because of the high need for adoptive families, referrals have been happening quicker than normal.  We will not get our hopes up, though.  
While we wait, there are some things we need to work on.  
- The first is the I600a, which is a petition to the US Government to be cleared to adopt an orphan from another country.  We will have to get fingerprinted again for this stage.  We mailed the packet this week , so we should hear back in the next couple weeks about our fingerprinting appointment.  We need to be cleared by USCIS to accept a referral.
- The other thing we can do is apply for grants.  We put our grant applications in the mail this week.  We are really praying we get selected for one or more of the grants we applied for.
- We need to start fundraising.  We will most likely have our fundraisers after school gets out, but we need to get those scheduled so we can start planning specifics.