Adoption Update: First Home Study Meeting Today

Today we went to our first home study meeting at the agency and met our social worker (who we likey). We found out that if we've ever participated in a drive-by shooting, or plan to keep our new kid in a closet or weren't born with fingerprints we can't adopt. Thankfully, it looks like we're gonna make it thru alright. It was mostly mounds of paperwork and discussion of more paperwork and plans for additional forthcoming... paperwork. We handed over our financial records, IDs, marriage licence, and all that good stuff, plus she wanted to see that we have a family fire escape plan (ya mean somethin' more than 'RUN KIDS!' ?), look at our driving records, and sign us up for background checks. Good thing we're fine upstandin' folk.

Now I'm workin' on more stuff to hand over for my personal meeting with her in a little more than a week. Most of it is fun stuff tho, like specifics about how we plan on caring for Baby. I'm looking forward making our family profile book, composing our letter to the birthparents, and writing my autobiography. (seriously, it's required.) So there's lots of busy work to do. We'll have separate interviews, Adam and I, coming up, so we're comparing notes and even practiced interviewing each other today. Poor Huz, he's got all the detailed financial planning to do... tho he has a head for it. (Thank God.)

Our social worker said if we get our paperwork done quickly and our references (you know who you are) get back to her quickly and we can schedule our meetings then the whole process will go fast and we might be able to be all "studied up" in 6 or so weeks. Then we go on the waiting list (a 3-10mo. wait) to do the preadoption classes and get into the "waiting pool"  as I like to call it (a 1-12mo. wait). So it looks like it'll be hurry up and wait for us and that's just fine. We're SO excited to have and hold Baby, but we know God has that little one headed to us at a good pace and  tho I want to, I don't want to rush it. There's trust in the waiting and trust is something I wanna grow in. So, Lord, I say BRING IT! (in your timing, of course)