Little Tangible Milestones

1. Sent off a smorgasbord of paperwork today:

• Background check requests for both of us to the Kentucky State Police, complete with self-addressed, stamped envelopes for return of results to us and Brenda.
• Child Abuse & Neglect checks for both of us to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services (or something to that effect).
• Background check request for me to the Virginia State Police.
• Application to American Adoptions

2. Dropped off Self-Studies for both of us, due by our next meeting with Brenda on August 11th.

3. As of today, we now have a locked box for our medications and a fire extinguisher on the wall in the laundry closet, both of which are part of the state regulations. I'm not sure why the medications can't be in an elevated cabinet, or a child-proof cabinet, but the paper says locked box, so they're in a locked box. We'll drop off my shotgun with Carrie's brother at some point in the next few weeks, since it's not worth buying a locked cabinet to keep it. I haven't used it in close to 10 years, so there's no real point in keeping it around and Mike's got plenty of room. If I need it, I can always get it from him later.