Its that time of year again...

The holidays are here and Danny and I have decided to "Adopt a Family". This time of year can be especially difficult for those families struggling to make ends meet. Gifts and special holiday meals become secondary when bills need to be paid. There are many low income working families in our community that are experiencing financial crises and we want to help make the holiday season brighter by "adopting a family" for the holidays.If you are interested in doing the same...Here is how it works...Fill out an application and fax it to them. They will assign you a family. You can provide a gift for each family member and/or a basket filled with x-mas dinner items. They will give you the names, ages and sex of each person in the family, which will make shopping more fun. Check out the website at http://www.capoc.org/getinvolved/adopt.html

Put a call in...

So I put a call into our Adoptions Worker on Friday. Just to touch base with her and remind her about us. She returned my call this a.m. I let her know where we are at with the licensing department and informed her that they requested additional information and that we provided it. She mentioned that the licensing department is very strict with their set of rules regarding how they do things and what has to be cleared. She said she will call our licensing worker just to chat with her about our file and make sure she doesn't have any concerns. She said, if there are any concerns, since she has gotten to know us, via our file and interviews.. she will try and reassure her about any hesitations.

Any way, she said getting cleared is a lot easier for family and friends of family, but she doesn't see any reason why we wont get licensed. She said that having gone this far and being this close, we just need to wait a bit more and everything should be ok. I am just getting so impatient!!!! LOL. I will keep you updated if we hear anything more.

And it's off...

OK, the packet is in the mail! Just wanted to confirm! Yipeeeee. Now can everyone hope and pray with me that they do not request ANY MORE PAPERWORK from us.. is that possible??? Somehow I doubt it. LOL.

Got the Documents!!

Woooo Hooooo! I can not believe how fast we got the documents we had requested! We have one more that we will be able to pick up this afternoon and then the packet of info will be mailed off tomorrow! Once she gets the packet they will go through the "clearance process" (even though all of this was already done with the adoptions department) and once we get clearance (which we were told can take up to 75 days, grrrrr) then they will schedule our home inspection! I'll keep you posted!

Just wanted to give a little update. We are still gathering the information that was requested! I want to say thank you to those of you who have helped us with the reference letters that are required (for a second time, lol). As soon as we get the last document that we are waiting on.. this stuff will be on its way. I will let you know when that happens.

More Info Needed

The licensing worker called us back and of course needs more information before we can proceed. It seems never ending. But we will keep our head up and do as they ask.. some day we will actually be able to say we are licensed.. lol.

I have most of what they are asking for, since most of it was already provided to the Adoptions Department. I will make copies and get that all together and take care of the other couple of things that we don't already have... once that is done we will send it in.. and wait...

We were told they will not be scheduling the home inspection until about 70 days after this paperwork is turned in. Why, you ask? Great question.. I wish some of the things we were told made sense... but what can you do? We are working with the State after all!

I called the Licensing worker back, and left her a message. We are waiting to hear back from her and of course waiting for the letter in the mail explaining what she is needing from us. No news yet.

The Licensing Social Worker

She finally called - hahaa, I say finally and we only turned in the paper work 2 weeks ago (she had 30 days) I am so impatient! Any way, I missed her call. She left a message last night while we were at dinner (celebrating our anniversary). She did mention that there are a few documents that she still needs (OF COURSE) and that she put a letter in the mail to us explaining it all. But of course, I do not want to wait for the letter - and I want to introduce myself to her, so I will give her a call back this afternoon.

Once I get the details, I will share them with you. Stay tuned!