First Day of Required Education Completed

John and I started our day at 9 am at Adoption Horizons. There we met with Cindy and Becky and one other couple to start our required ten hours of parent training. The Hague Treaty requires ten hours of parent education. Definition alert: The Hague Adoption Convention on the Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Inter-Country Adoption is an international agreement to safeguard intercountry adoptions.  If you want to know more about the Hague Adoption Convention go to http://www.adoption.state.gov/hague/overview.html

We introduced ourselves to the other couple while we waited for Cindy and Becky to settle in. We went over our motivations for adoption and then continued on until lunch covering the required topics: losses in adoption and transracial adoption. Basically, Cindy and Becky went though a list of questions under each topic so they could gauge our knowledge and understanding. It was nice to have the other couple there and to find out that we have some things in common. We will have another day of parent education in two weeks.

We finished up at 2:30 pm and then John and I went over our homestudy with Becky and filled in some missing information. We discovered that we are missing Tb tests so we will have to go to Public Health during the week and get that done. I could probably get a copy of my most recent result form work but it might just be easier to get it done again. It's frustrating to have another delay in the home study but it's better to have it done correctly than to discover an error after it is sent to the State Department which could cause further delays and cost more in fees.