knee-deep.

Many of you were praying for our first homestudy meeting last Thursday. Thanks so much! I'll be honest. I was nervous like it was the first day of school. I was so happy to graduate from college, knowing I never had to have a first day of school again in my life. Although, now as I type this I'm wondering, could some of you seasoned moms tell me if it's just as bad when your kids start school?

So the meeting went great. It was mostly a time for our social worker to get to know us and hear a little about our lives. She is the person who will write up what kind of child we are capable of adopting so it's important for her to get to know the real us. However, it still makes me nervous again thinking that she will step in my front door tomorrow for our next meeting. This one is a time for her to see if our home is suitable for another child, talk with us about our parenting philosophies, and see us interact with Peanut and Buddy. Talk about pressure! I'm only taking a moment to write between getting dinner ready and cleaning my bathrooms.

Currently I feel knee-deep in papers. K and I have written up our autobiographies, filled out and had notarized form after form, and watched hours of parenting seminars while taking notes and then tests. Yes, there's a mountain of paperwork, but once we get through it all, I'm sure the months of waiting will be more difficult than what we're doing right now.

There's been questions about the children we are interested in. Once our contract arrives this week, we will be able to request more information about those children. Because we are interested in kids on the waiting list, we will be able to choose which child to bring home. If there were no waiting list, I suppose we would wait to be matched with a child meeting our qualifications, but thankfully we won't have to wait! Then after our homestudy is complete we will await the official referral for that specific child.

More to come once my house is ready for inspection! Blessings, angela