Major Strides in Completing this Application

The past few days have been pretty quiet on the adoption front. However many things have gotten done today alone. One of the best things is that Sean has completed his questionnaire. Of course I read it and laughed at some of his answers. He did a really good job.
This means all of our home study paperwork is filled out. Hooray for us!
I looked through the Gladney adoption application checklist and we finished filling out all the paperwork in the binder, signed all documents that need to be signed, and realize that the only things left for us to do is the following: complete the home study interviews, write a "dear birth mother" letter, get our physician to sign paperwork saying we're healthy, meet with our priest and get him to sign saying we're good people, put together this profile with all the pictures, send our referral letters out, wait for our police and FBI reports to come back, get a letter from our health insurer, practice our evacuation plan in case of fire, get a fire marshall in the house to check our fireplace and furnace, and lastly we need to complete our outreach to a counselor or educator. I haven't put a lot of thought into that but I have a few friends who are teachers who I may lean on for this one.
So although this sounds like a lot, it's actually not because there were about 40 other things on the list that we've already completed.
I'm so excited that we have all the paperwork filled out. Now it's just the legwork which will take longer because we'll be waiting on other people. I might start working on that birthmother letter this week during all the waiting.