First Home Study Visit

Mike and I met down at Family Core....which is the new name for Counseling and Family Services to begin our home study with Lindsey. She is so sweet and really easy to talk to. For those who don't understand the process of international adoption, the home study is the part where you spend many hours with a social worker where you share everything in your life which includes up bringing, relationships with each other, children, family, and others. How we look at adoption and why we want to adopt. How our family is reacting to the adoption and what type of support we have. It looks at our religion beliefs, how involved we are in our church. It goes over our education, work place, health concerns or issues. What we feel about the culture we are adopting from. How involved we are in that culture and how we keep that culture in our child's life. It is pretty intense and very lengthy but to bring our daughter home it is so worth it. We already have a date to have our finger prints done for the state and we have a date for our next home study visit which is Friday August 13. Now we can feel this paper pregnancy beginning.