The Hoops

We've started jumping through the hoops to become foster parents. Simultaneously, we need to renew our adoption homestudy for to stay eligible in the adoption waiting pool. It's a little complicated, and all my "free time" is going towards both processes. I'm going to keep a little online journal here, partially to remind myself what's been done. Certainly not very interesting, but maybe it will help anyone considering adoption or foster care.

Foster Care - Complete:

1. Attended orientation class

2. Fingerprinted and qualified - inkless = same day notification! Sweet!

3. Registered for Foster Adoptive Kinship Training (FAKT) classes. The training will be 20 hours total, split into 4 classes. Once you attend the first class, you can makeup other classes in the case you can't make 4 consecutive Saturdays.

4. Lined up childcare for FAKT classes.

Adoption Homestudy Update - Complete:

1. Hubby's physical and drug test - accepted.

2. Hubby's fingerprints - accepted.

3. My fingerprints - pending.

4. Scheduled my physical.

5. Scheduled a home visit.

6. Doing county and city police background checks tomorrow afternoon!

7. Requested forms for CPS checks.