So life in the Baumann household has been interesting over the past few weeks. In January, we started working with the City of St. Louis DFS agency to get adoption certified. We did 9 weeks of foster care classes and then two 6 hour training classes for adoption. We finished those up right before Easter and this coming week we will sign off on our home study. This means that we will be ready to go and will be able to look at profiles for the local agency. We are excited about this and the possibilities it can open.
As for things on the international side, things are getting better. We actually got a referral about 2 weeks ago, but the children were older and had some severe medical issues that were not going to be easily treatable. So we decided to decline the referral which was hard, but it was the right decision.
We are hopeful that one of these two paths are going to result in something good soon. We are saying prayers that we will have the knowledge and information we need to make any more tough decisions that are necessary.
