Wordless Wednesday!

Home Study #2

We have completed home study #2.  I am not sure why people typically get nervous for the home study, but we were not nervous at all.  Amber arrived at our home, she walked through each room of our house and then we sat down and answered questions.  Here are some of the questions that were asked:

How do we argue?
How we discipline our children?
How we plan to discipline the child that we will be adopting?
What do we do for date night?
What do we think our own individual strengths and weaknesses are?
How would we describe our kids?
Do we attend church?
How would we preserve the adopted child's culture?


Honestly, we felt very comfortable the whole time and were not at all nervous.  We answered the questions honestly and truthfully, as everyone should.  It was like talking to an old friend about things that we had gone through in life and in our relationships.  No biggie.  :-)

Couple of suggestions, make sure you have the following:

fire extinguisher
carbon monoxide detector a maximum of 15 feet from the bedrooms.
an exit plan in case of a fire
fire ladder (if you have a two - three story home)

Some of these things may not be required for your home study visit, but they were required for ours.  Fortunately, we had everything already in place except for a ladder.

I hope this information helps :-)

Home Study #1

Yesterday we had our first home study visit with our social worker Amber.  It went very well and she made sure that we were comfortable.  She asked questions about our childhood, our most memorable moments, our parents, how we met, how we parent and etc.  It was a little difficult to summarize our lives in an hour and a half, but we managed to do it.  LOL.  We have out second visit scheduled for next Monday, and if all goes well, this will be our final visit and she will start preparing the report.  Things are moving along...

Have a Wonderful Wednesday....xoxo

Happy Friday!!!

Happy Friday everyone.  We received the 10 hour online coursework yesterday from our social worker and we started on it last night.  Our plan is to have it completed by Saturday.  She also recommended that we start reading a book, The Connected Child by Karyn Purvis.  We haven't started reading that yet, but we plan on starting once we complete the online adoptive parent coursework.  The course that we are taking online is through Heart of the Matters Seminar and thus far, it has been very informative.  

Well, that is all for now.  I hope that everyone has a happy Friday and a GREAT weekend.  :-) 

XOXO

I saw this as I was browsing for images to personalize my debit card, and I fell in love with it.  

This pic says it all!  :-) 

First Home Study visit SCHEDULED!!

As you can imagine, I am SUPER excited that we finally have our first official home study meeting scheduled with our social worker Amber on 10/9.  Woohoo!!  Our second visit is scheduled a week after that!  Things are moving right along!  Just think....in two weeks, we could possibly be done with our home study appointments, just waiting for the final write up!   :-)  

Waiting...

Well, we are waiting for our home study appointment, so no real updates yet.  We are having our documents authenticated at the Secretary of State today, so that will be the last thing to do for our dossier (outside of the home study).  We are supposed to receive a call this week to schedule our first home study appointment, so hopefully that call will call soon!  Until then, I hope everyone is having a great week!