Application Accepted!

We just got word last night that our application has been received and accepted!  Now we need to get started on our home study application.  Since our agency isn't licensed for home studies in our state, we need to use another agency. 
I started working on the application, and oh my does it require a lot of detail.  We need 5 non-family local references, we just moved here 3 1/2 years ago, but we want to use friends who have known us longer.  We need to go back and list every job we've had for the past 10 years and the salary!  10 years ago I graduated high school, so that's a lot of life guarding and similar jobs- I don't remember how much I made.  We need to submit this preliminary application before we go into the big details.  We'll need physicals, reports from the veterinarian that our cats are friendly and have all their shots up to date.  We'll be fingerprinted and background checked.  A social worker will visit our house and make sure everything is safe for a child. 
Amazing!  It can be frustrating, but maybe everyone should go through this before they have a child!  It's funny to prepare your house for a child of an unknown age that won't be here for 2-3 years!   We are so excited, and a little nervous.  Now come some big payments to get things underway. 

Application in the Mail!

We sent our application out on Wednesday!  I dropped it at the Post Office so it would get there just a little sooner :-)  It was a little sleuthing tracking down the amounts of my 401k from a previous employer, but everything else was straight forward.  No begins our official 2-3 year "paperwork pregnancy"!