I sent in our dossier today! Here is a photo of the documents left behind. We sent in one original, two copies, and I made a copy for us to keep. The papers below include another dossier,  and three copies of the original second dossier. We have another set ready to go incase one of the children needs to come from a different orphange.

This morning I went to the Federal Building in downtown San Diego for our I-171H approval and got it! That allows us to bring international orphans into the country. I then went to the bank and got money orders for the Ethiopian Embassy and the U.S. State Dept. Made out our final check for our agency fee, translation fee, international children fees, post--placement fees, and then to Staples to overnight the paperwork to CWA by UPS. So much work went into those papers!! This is a list of what we had to get:

• Power of Attorney

• Dossier Cover Letter

• Home Study

• Home Study Agency’s License

•Home Study Social Worker’s License or Diploma

• Letter Verifying Completion of All State Pre-Adoption Requirements

• Police Clearance Letter Father & Mother

• Passport Photos for Father & Mother

• Birth Certificate, Marriage Certificate and Divorce Decrees

• Medical Reports for Father & Mother 

•Family Photos

•Employment Letter for Father & Mother

•Bank Statement

•Page 1, Tax Form 1040, Last Three Years

•Parent Letter Requesting Adoption From Ethiopia

•Reference Letters

•Parent Commitment to Provide Post Placement Reports

•Adoptive Parent Form Father & Mother

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I also went to Barnes & Noble and bought The Complete Book of International Adoption: A step-by-Step Guide to Finding Your Child by Dawn Davenport. It looked the friendliest & most useful to me at this point. I am also reading I'm Chocolate & You're Vanilla which is very informative, but a little beyond me at this point. I ordered about $80 of books from Kingdom Kids and can't wait to read them!

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This is what I did yesterday afternoon. I brought this bookcase in from Jesse's (17) room into the dining room/family room part of the house. Jesse doesn't want the kids in his room, and well it has their books in it so something needed to be done. I was able to put our most played games in there too. We still have oodles more books, and  will work on that in the next few weeks.

 The Beverly Cleary and chapter books are on the top, I Can Read books on the left, some science and history books (we have two-three more bookcases with those books), picture books, books for baby, games, Dr. Seuss books and Charlie Brown books are towards the middle and bottom.

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