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Step One... Done!

4/6/2020

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Welcome back to Taylor Talks!

How about that? I blogged two days ago and I'm already back... see, I told you that I'd try to keep up with things more often again!

Okay, okay, so I still haven't set an actual blogging schedule or anything, but I did have some really cool news to share, so I figured that this is the perfect place to do it.
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If you started following my adoption page on Facebook after reading my post the other day, then you may have already seen this announcement...

I officially sent in my home study application today!

Wow, let me just tell you that private adoption is no joke. Actually, my parents had to go through a home study to become licensed to foster, so they probably went through all of this as well. There's a lot, and I do mean a lot of paperwork that needs to be filled out at the beginning of this whole process.

To give you an idea of what the process entails, here's what I did just today, after all of the forms were filled out and important documents were pulled out from filing cabinets and I had emailed back and forth with the home study agency's director more times than I can count over a three month period...

  • Scanned 16 documents into my computer
    • Almost all of these were multiple pages, double-sided
    • The largest files were 10 and 8 pages long, which meant scanning 20 and 16 sides into the computer
  • Tried to email all 16 scanned documents, plus the 5 files that were already saved on my computer to the agency
    • The 20 page document was too large of a file and had to be sent separately, so I sent 20 documents instead of 21
  • In between sending the first email and second email, of course my sisters needed me for something, so I stepped away from the computer for 5 minutes
  • By the time I got back to the computer, I already had an email back from the agency's director saying that all but 3 of the files had opened properly on her end
    • Those 3 files were some that had already been saved on my computer
  • Took the paper copies of the 3 files that didn't send and scanned those into my computer as new documents
  • Sent a second email with the 20 page document and the 3 documents that didn't work the first time


Whew, it was a long day... and I'm telling you it took hours to get everything together in one spot and organize myself and my sister to complete all of the scanning. I couldn't have finished everything today without her help. She literally sat at the opposite end of the table from me, next to the printer, and I would pass down papers to her. She'd then put them on the scanner and I could hit "scan" from my computer. Then she'd pass the finished papers back so I could keep them organized... it was a whole ordeal. But now my little sisters don't need to ask me if I'm done every single day anymore!

On the bright side, I now have 21 documents completely sent over to the home study agency showing that I'm ready to go for my home visit! Surprisingly, I still have three more parts of the home study application to complete, but I can't take care of those until life resumes as normal after this Coronavirus pandemic (like fingerprinting, getting forms signed by a doctor...). Oh, and I also can't actually have the home visit done until the pandemic calms down, so even though I sent everything else in today, I'll probably be waiting a couple of months to have a completed home study.

​The past few months have been filled with a ton of work between filling out papers, signing forms, taking parenting training classes, and asking a ton of questions.... and it's all absolutely worth it!

Thanks for coming back to Taylor Talks! I look forward to sharing even more about my adoption process with you in the future... that is why I started this blog after all.

- Taylor

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    My family started doing foster care when I was three years old. We took in nineteen children over the course of eighteen years, with our last placement leaving in December 2014. I'm the only biological child in my family, though my parents adopted five of my siblings.

    I love to share my perspective on the foster care system and share how my unique upbringing shaped my life.

    I'm also a Cast Member at Walt Disney World and lover of all things Disney! My career allows me the opportunity to find a little bit of Magic in life every day.


    I enjoy sharing my journey as a writer as well. Find my children's books on Amazon and keep following my blog for updates on future books that I'll be releasing!

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