Results of Yard Sale

Yesterday Chad and I FROZE at our garage sale! Thankfully we had a couple of space heaters to make things bearable early in the day on Saturday. We had several people come and make large purchases. Jaimey placed our signs on the interstate, which got several other customers to our house. We completed the two days with a profit over $200 dollars! Thank yous go to Amanda and Chad Maleug, Stefanie Gipson, my family, Laura and Gail Strope, Lynn Ewing, Mandy Fisher and Amanda's best friend. They all donated sale items or helped get ready for the yard sale. As for an update with our adoption, we have crossed several other items off of our list. This week we received our fingerprints from the FBI. Chad completed his physical, and I will complete mine this coming week. This week is Finals at WIU so I hope to focus on completion of our dossier. We hit a small snag in the testing of our water. We hope to solve this problem in the next few days as this will be the final component for our dossier. Before summer school begins in June, I will have our dossier finalized so we may begin the notarization process. Following notarizing our documents, I will fax them to our caseworker at the agency so she may review they are in order. Once they are approved by her I will drive them to Springfield for apostillization. The last piece will be getting our clearance by the US Government certifying we have met the criteria for adoptive parents. This is based upon our homestudy and other documents we submitted. Please continue saving aluminum cans. Also, if anyone has items you would like to donate for our future yard sale, the next one will be on June 18th and 19th. Stay in touch as things should move along more quickly at this point (we hope but in adoption who knows!).