The beginning of the story...the homestudy

Our adoption journey began in June of 2010. We tried to get pregnant for 7 months before my endometriosis forced me to go back on birth control. Josh and I discussed adoption before we got married and knew this was a road we would eventually be on. In June 2010 I contacted a homestudy agency recommended to us by our church and we began gathering paperwork. I was so excited to get all of our paperwork together...which took A LOT of time. In the process of gathering paperwork Josh lost his job as an engineer and we decided to put the adoption on hold until we knew what Josh was going to do. It was quite the process but Josh decided to leave the engineering field and begin working towards his masters in education so that he could teach high school physics. Once this was decided we began our journey again in September of 2010. At this point we were still gathering paperwork from doctors offices, banks, and the government.(unfortunately you can not force doctors offices and the government to work on your time frame!) In November 2010 we had our very first homestudy meeting! I felt like we were finally on the road to being parents!! We had our second homestudy meeting in January 2011 and officially had a finalized homestudy in February 2011! I anticipated smoothe sailing from that point forward....