FINALLY. . .Phase one complete!

Thursday we received a letter in the mail from Christian Family Services:

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Dear Marc and Kimberly,

Thank you for returning your Preliminary Application. Our next step is to schedule you into an orientation meeting and an adoption workshop. We generally like to schedule these meeting concurrently. We have the orientation meeting prior to the beginning of our adoption workshop. However, should you desire to come in earlier for your orientation meeting, you may call to discuss this option.

As you've probably already been informed, we schedule these workshops periodically throughout the year. The timing of these depends upon when we receive a sufficient number of applicants to attend a workshop. We try to give you four to six weeks of prior notice before a workshop to help you with your scheduling.

Should you have any additional questions or desire any additional information, please let me know. We look forward to working with you.

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Needless to say, this was more than great news.

This news also came on the same day we received our tax refund from our friends at the Federal Government. With us having our home on the market and continually needing to have it presentable, we've had much fun cleaning most every day. Recently it became clear our vacuum no longer "sucked" (which is not a good thing. . .irony) and we needed to buy a new one. Ah, the joys of unexpected costs in realty. Vacumm's aren't cheap!

Also, last night Marc and Chris Heil went to the final loss (no irony here folks) of the Kansas City Brigade arena football team at Kemper Arena. On their way home they were hit from behind on the driver side rear bumper/tail light by an SUV merging to exit. Everyone is fine, and the driver was just glad no one was injured. However, it looks like Chris' Corolla won't survive the insurance audit; although the two did have a good time seeing the inside of the yellow police station off Barry Road and 169. While he's considering a Honda hybrid, we're trying to get him to see the benefits of owning a convertible Mazda Miata.

God continues to be amazing. Now we just need a buyer for our home. . .

More soon.