1st Home Study Meeting

We had our first home study meeting a couple of weeks ago and it went great. Much better than we anticipated actually. We didn't think it was going to go badly, we were just nervous about the whole thing. It is a little unnerving to have someone come to your home and to know that the future of your family is in their hands. It ended up that Connie, our for now social worker-she is retiring in about 20 days, was great.

For those of you that don't know what a home study pertains here is a little explanation. A home study is to a series of meetings and paperwork to be approved to adopt a child. In Illinois we also must be a licensed foster home. The meeting we had the other night was to start this paperwork. The home study makes you think about things that you might not have even considered about life with an adopted child From the sounds of there are around 4 meetings all together. So 1 down 3 to go. Hopefully we will have finished everything for the Home Study by the end of July. Which we will then be able to send in our dossier to our placement agency. Once that is approved by everyone involved we will be officially a waiting family, which means we wait for our referral of our child. So exciting!!! But one step at a time. First the Home Study.