Earlier this year, my family announced that we are adopting from India! We are almost done with the first big milestone - the home study. A home study is the state's approval of you as adoptive parents, and it includes background checks, health clearances, psychological evaluations, home visits, employ verification, hours of education, and more. It's taken about four months for us to get everything together. During this time, we also needed to raise funds to get this process

You might remember that a few months ago I was documenting the Havrons as a family of three. Now they are a family of four and we had the...