Waiting….

Our second Home Study visit went well.  The social worker asked for a quick tour of the house.  She wanted to see that we had a bedroom that would be used for the nursery and that we had the necessary smoke detectors, etc.   She wanted to see the backyard so we stepped out on the screened in porch where our cat Rainey resides.  (For those of you who know Rainey, you are most likely thinking the same thing I was… “Please God, do not let Rainey be in one of her moods and ruin this entire thing for us”.  She must have taken my threats seriously because she didn’t even hiss at us.  The social worker even commented on how sweet she was. 🙂  The social worker told us that she would be in touch soon and would send us the report of her visit by the end of October.

We rewarded ourselves with our first official baby purchase.  We found a great deal on a pack and play on Amazon in a nice neutral green and brown.  Since we have no gender preference, the shopping is a little harder (which may be a good thing).  It was still a huge deal and we were super excited!

This home study report is all that stands in between us and being available for birth parents to choose from. They say the hardest part of adoption is the wait… Especially when  EVERYTHING is out of your control.   I AGREE!   We waited to be sure this was the right decision for us, waited for the class with our agency, waited on the backgrounds, and marriage license copy to be sent to us, waited for our Adoption Coordinator to assign our home study, waited for the social worker to contact us, waited for the social worker to schedule both of the required visits, and now we are waiting for her to write the required report so that we can wait on our agency to approve it, so that we can wait to “be on the books”… That will be when the REAL wait begins!

Please keep us in your prayers as I am sure the waiting game only gets harder from here.

 

Home study is underway!

Our Home study is underway!  I had started to get a little impatient since it had been almost two weeks since our Adoption Coordinator told us that the Social Worker would be in touch within a week or so.  I sent her a note on Friday to let her know that we hadn’t heard from her yet.   I figured she would eventually call and we would schedule a time for her to come out, giving us at least several days to get some projects done around the house and get everything shining…  WRONG!   On Saturday afternoon around 3pm our Social Worker called and said she could come out to the house on Sunday… (Sunday as in less than 24 hours notice!)  EEEEEK!!!!  She said she could come out on Sunday and then do the second visit a week later.  As much as we would have liked a little more time to get things done we jumped at the chance of being that much closer to “being on the books”.

With everything shining and our stomach in knots, we were anxiously awaiting her arrival on Sunday afternoon.  Just as we had been told, the anticipation was much worse than the actual visit.  We found her to be very nice and rather easy to talk to.   She did individual interviews with both of us and then a joint interview.  She will be back next Saturday for the second visit and will take a tour of the house while she is here.  She then has 45 days to prepare her report and submit it it IAC.

So, if everything goes as planned, we should be “on the books” by the middle of November!  Woohooo!!