Homestudy Addendum

As a result of moving in the middle of this adoption jouney, it was necessary that we have an addendum prepared for our homestudy. We schduled this for Tuesday September 13th. Our Social Worker arrived at 5:00 PM. It was uneventful. She simply toured our new house and noted the number of rooms. She wanted to know how many smoke detectors and fire extinguishers we have. She also wanted to know how we intend to secure our pool area to limit children's access. She was here about 45 minutes and then was gone. She will send this addendum to the BCIS and we will have it forwarded to Ukraine. It should not create a problem since we already have our registration number.

We have heard that for the last few months the process in Ukraine has been very slow. We know of three families who experienced delays while in country. In fact one family decided to return home without a child. Oh, we hope and pray that we do not have this experience, it would be quite painful. The positive is that it seems that 'things' have started moving again in Ukraine. No one knows why there are such periods of delay, there is no apparent reason except that the government just puts on the brakes occasionally.