The engine and first few cars of our train

The engine of our train is our family's desire to adopt a boy.  We formally began this process last August, by contacting a social worker to start our homestudy. 

The first car is all the paperwork filled out for our homestudy, which was a very large stack, including autobiographies written by Brian and I.  The agency also required 5 letters of reference from people we know, as well as medical forms, police clearance letters, child abuse registry checks in every state and country we've ever lived, etc.  Not a short process!