The Home Study!

After spending the last month gathering a lot of paperwork, getting examined by doctors, and obtaining reference letters, we found out today that our social worker will be coming out next week for our home study.  I have to admit that I am a little nervous about this. There is quite a bit of  vulnerability in having a stranger in my home to assess if our home is a good place to raise children!  However, the lady seems very nice and excited to help us in our adoption journey. 

I recieved a list of safety issues that the state of Texas requires us to address for our home to be safe for children.  Apparently, my home is not currently safe for my 2 existing children because our glass doors don't have a sign on them to protect a child from crashing into them ("Warning: Running Into A Glass Door Hurts"), and we don't have regularly scheduled family fire drills including a bell or chime to alert our children to the presence of fire in the home (as if my screaming and the blaring of smoke alarms aren't enough).  Anyway, needless to say, our weekend ahead is going to full of making our house "safer" for the social worker's visit.  Also, as part of the home study, each of us will be interviewed by the social worker (including the kids...by themselves...alone...enough said).  She estimates this will all take about 5 hours. Yikes.

We appreciate your prayers as we have this done.  She will be at our house for about 3 hours on Thursday, the 10th, and again for about 2 hours on Sunday the 13th.  We will update later on how that goes!