I just got notice from my agency that my adoption home study is done.  She emailed last week to tell me that I passed the fingerprinting.  I was secretly hoping this might take a while.

So...here's where we are:

1. Adoption home study interview - Mom
2. Adoption home study interview - Middle Boy
3. Adoption home study interview - family
4. Fingerprints - Mom
5. Adoption study paperwork - Foster Care Specialist - waiting for the results of my fingerprinting...which by the way has been done SEVEN TIMES in the last two years.
6. Determine monthly stipend - Service Coordinator/Mom - This will be done at our FTM in June.  I am going to have to fig
7. File stipend collateral paperwork - Service Coordinator
8. Select adoption attorney - Mom - I can do this.  I just have to find the paperwork I got from CASA with the recommendations.
9. Prepare adoption paperwork - Adoption Attorney
10. File adoption paperwork at courthouse - Adoption Attorney - Ideally this would get done on June 21, 2012, the first available day it can happen.
11. Wait 30 - 90 days - Everyone
12. Adoption hearing - Everyone - There will probably be two of these, because the boys have different judges and are on different court dockets.  The boys really want them to be on the same day, but I don't think we have much control over that.  Ideally they would at least be in the same week.
13. Big party - Everyone - no details yet, still wondering what this should be.  Younger Boy will want a big party...Middle Boy will want to be a small family celebration, because he doesn't like the attention drawn to him.

Pray for me to be at peace with all of this.  Everything and everyone in foster care will tell you that the closer adoption gets the worse the behaviors become and then they will taper off once everything is finalized.  We all just need to hold on for the next few months...it's going to be a bumpy ride.