Artificially Sweetened: Moving Day!

Sunday, December 31, 2006

Moving Day!

I can now be found at:

http://artsweet.wordpress.com.

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Smooches,

Art

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Lots of cute baby pictures, accompanied by occasional semi-coherent thoughts on type 1 diabetes, adoption and adoptive mamahood.

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Adoption Steps

~~Send deposit in to agency~~

For Homestudy:

~~First meeting with Mrs. Vaseline Teeth (social worker)~~
~~List of all addresses since age 18 for child abuse check~~
~~Fingerprints for State Criminal Record Check~~
~~State criminal record check (send in)~~
~~Notarized Employment Letter (Pili)~~
~~Notarized Bank Letter (Pili)~~
~~Copy of 2005 tax returns (both)~~
~~Financial Statement~~
~~Notarized Medical letters (both - yikes)~~
~~Pili Autobiographical Statement~~
~~Art-Sweet Autobiographical Statement~~
~~Three reference letters~~
~~Art-Sweet meet with MVT~~
~~Pili meet with MVT~~
~~Joint meeting at home (call Merry Maids)~~

For Guatemala/Dossier

~~Two witness statements~~
~~Psych letter~~
~~Notarized Name affidavit~~
~~Notarized police clearance~~
~~Have all documents looked over by agency~~
~~Final notarized homestudy~~
~~Get all notarized documents certified by County Clerks~~
~~Get all certified documents authenticated by Guatemalan Consulate~~
~~SEND DOSSIER TO GUATEMALA!~~
Redo: ~~police letter certification, employment letter, one witness statement~~, doctor's letter and name affidavit.
~~Wait, wait, wait for referral~~

For U.S. MisGovernment

~~Submit homestudy and form I600A to Homeland Insecurity~~
~~Get fingerprint appt from Insecurity~~
~~Get fingerprinted by Homeland Insecurity~~
~~Get authorization to adopt from Insecurity(I71H)~~

Before we can meet Guatebaby...

~~Embassy information letter~~
~~Power of Attorney & Rights of the Child~~
~~First installment agency fee~~
Mother and baby DNA tested - DNA must match!
Family court report
Visit trip
U.S. Embassy pre-approval
Enter PGN
Get out of PGN!
Get "pink" (final authorization to adopt)
Pick-up trip!

Blogs I read

My blogroll is a work in progress. If you're not on here and you think you belong, please drop me an email and I'll add you. Eventually.

Photo Friday Pool
Come on in for a swim.
Queering Diabetes
Where all the cool kids are.
Queer Diabetes Yahoogroup


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The Diabetes OC Webring

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Sunday, December 31, 2006

Moving Day!

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