Jail, psych evals....

Yesterday, Dave and I went to the Cumberland County Jail to get two sets of fingerprints done.  One set will be sent to the State for criminal clearance, and the second set goes to the FBI.  The State clearances should take about to two weeks, and the FBI will take about 6 weeks to process.  Our homestudy can be done without the results, but they are needed to make final recommendations.

This morning we met with a PhD Psychologist who did our psych evals which is a requirement for Honduras.  He met with us together and separately.  I was a bit nervous going in because I really didn't know what to expect.  The whole experience wasn't bad at all.  He asked basic questions about our marriage, motives for adopting and how we would assist our daughter in the transition into another culture among other things.  We each had to take the MMPI which was 568 True/False questions.  It it one of those tests that asks a lot of the same questions in several different ways.  The doctor will have our report written by next week, so that's good.

Another thing that happened today was we received a call from our Portland area caseworker, Gayle.  She wanted to set up the first part of our homestudy for April 9th!  She will visit our home and do an interview. We've been waiting for the homestudy to get started, but had to submit so much paperwork and that took time.  The homestudy is a HUGE part of this process so we are so excited to finally get going on this!