Here We Go Again!

Paul and I have decided to go ahead and update our homestudy and paperwork for California. We had originally thought that we would only be in this state for 2 years before moving on, and so we assumed there would be little to no chance of us being here by the time we got a referral, so we allowed our paperwork to expire. Since it now looks like we will be heading to San Diego next (and thus sticking around in CA for 3 more years), we are going to go ahead and bite the proverbial bullet and get it over with. This way we can be current with our state of residence, just in case!

We have a new social worker from an agency here in CA, and we have been working with her to get a firm understanding of what we will need to do. The bad news is that it appears that we will basically need to start over from scratch; our old homestudy from Virginia is no longer valid (they are only good for one year), and none of it was going to be accepted by California anyway. The good news is that at least we have "been there, done that", so the process is not as overwhelming to me as it was the last time. Now I know where to go, who to talk to, and how to go about getting all the information and documentation we will need.

And so we begin again. We are finished with the preliminary application process; I am driving up to our new agency today to turn all those papers in, as well as some other things I went ahead and collected for them (since I know they will be needed, such as birth certificates, our marriage certificate, copies of our passports, our most recent physicals, etc.). Then they will schedule our first introductory interview/home visit, hopefully next week. After that we can begin to work on the actual homestudy.

As always, I'll keep you posted!