Home Study Visit Scheduled!

After sending in our fat pack of 80 papers we ahd compiled for the requested documents for the home study we have now been assigned a date, March 16 & 17 for our social worker to come and do our in home visit. Since she is traveling from 3 hours away she is going to do two visits back to back on a saturday and Sunday.
The first visit is more of an orientation visit, she will talk to us about adoption and also discuss what has lead us to make the decision to adopt. She will also do family interviews, during which she will speak breifly with each of the children. Well not Kianna of course! She will also do a home tour of our house.
The 2nd and 3rd visits the next day are individual interviews with Steve and I, where she will get more information on our back round, childhood, marriage etc.
Then she will go back and write up a draft of our home study.

The fourth and final visit will be a few weeks later and we can meet at a location halfway for both of us.

I'm kind of nervouse, but more excited, because getting this done is a huge chunk accomplished!! In the instructions about preparing for our in home visits they said relax and dont be nervouse and dont feel like you have to clean your house from top to bottom! lol. They dont want us to feel like they will be doing a white glove inspection.
The home study can seem lengthy and invasive, but it is all to help prepare us for adoption. The regulations serve to protect  the best interest of the child and to ensure that he/she is placed in a loving healthy environment. Afterall, the reward of going through a period of inconvenience is great: many years of fulfillment in loving and raising a child with God's love.

Thank you Jesus for walking us through this home study. Thank you that YOU go before us and will continue to open every door, at the right time.  

K & D's Science project. Bird nest with "bird eggs" and it was eatable at that!!

                                      
                                   Evening snuggles with daddy

Thank you Jesus for walking us through this home study. Thank you that YOU go before us and will continue to open every door. The right door for the right Psychologist to do our evaluations.