Home Study

I just got back from a fabulous weekend home in Tulsa. My mom had a very important birthday and of course it was Mother’s Day. We took a trip to OKC to go to their art museum and to see The Lion King. It was FABULOUS!! I have a feeling that as D and I go through this adoption process I will need to remember the song “Hakuna Matata” on several occasions to keep from getting too stressed. Although, I am in many ways the queen of worry so living with “no worries” is somewhat laughable in my world but I’ll do my best.

While I was away, D spoke to our social worker and set the date for our first home study appointment – next Monday!! This is huge and makes me feel like we are really starting to move through all this paperwork and accomplish something. I am eager to find out what sorts of things we will discuss. From my understanding, they really just want to see our home environment and make sure it is a safe and healthy place for a child. It is a time for the social worker to interview us in person and just learn more about us. A lot of the paperwork we have been working on the past few weeks all goes into our home study. D and I have had physicals, filled out autobiographical statements, completed financial statements, asked various folks to write references and more! So once it is all complete it will be a pretty extensive packet of information about D and me. The U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services require our home study before they finalize approval to allow us to immigrate a foreign born child into the U.S. So as you can imagine the home study is a very important piece. Of course, the faster we get all of this done and get approved then the faster we get on the waitlist!

On a funny note, several weeks ago we were chatting with some of our closest friends here in Ohio about possible baby names for the little buster. One of the couples has a three year old and D and I just adore her. She has MAJOR personality and I think in her twos she had a little crush on D. She referred to him as “my D.” Does it get much cuter than that? Well, back to the original story. We were discussing names and asked for the advice of our favorite three year old. Her exact response was, “umm…. Arson.” Where did she come up with that?! D and I put it on the list but so far there are about 150 other names ahead of it. J

Send us good thoughts on Monday!