Finally, a psych eval!

Here's the thing...there is no doubt that international adoption is a huge mound of paperwork. It is endless hours of forms and letters, fingerprinting, bank statements, tax forms it just never stops. I have spent the last two months doing all of this only to be hung up by something simple. A letter from a psychologist saying we are ok to do this. I figured this would be easy. It has been in the past. Not this time.

We started with a friend who has a masters in counseling. He couldn't do it because he is not licensed yet. He recommended a friend, who we made an appointment with, only to have it cancelled a few days in advance. The psychologist thought it over and for whatever reason wouldn't do it. Then a social worker friend, but her credentials weren't right, then the yellow pages. I called a psychologist who was not comfortable with it because he had never done anything like this. Then, our social worker doing our home study did some checking around, and found us someone willing to do it. I made the appointment there but as it turns out, we would have to drive 2.5 hours to get there, then 2 hours of psych testing for me, 2 hours of testing for Tim, then another 2.5 hours home. All this for the low low price of $1000 not covered by insurance. Then the evaluation of the test results and on and on. I was about to throw in the towel until I found a web site for a PhD psychologist who would do our testing online, then a phone eval and proof of child abuse clearance and home study. She will write it, notarized it and even get the state seal. She is an adoptive mom who is so willing to help. I had prayed and prayed about this to come through, that something would come our way. To be honest, the tearful frustration probably echoed as loud as the prayer, but once again, God showed up and showed off.

Next is finish the home study, get the eval from the psychologist and off to translation our documents go!!! We are inching ever closer to getting them to Haiti! Hold on Nate...mama blanc is on the way!