Monday, July 20, 2009

What's a Home Study?

This was the question Jay kept asking as we started this whole process. Well, yesterday we found out. We had our first interview with our social worker. She came to our home and sat with us in the living room and asked us questions about us, our extended families, why we want to adopt, etc. I was a little surprised that she handed us another stack of paperwork to complete. But it was easy and I have most of it done 24 hours later. Jay needs to do his portion and we have to send quite a few requests for criminal background checks to IL, WI and MN. Yet to complete for the home study will be doctors physicals and FBI fingerprinting. We liked our social worker very much and look forward to another quick (and probably final) meeting this Friday at our house.

It's a busy week in our house with C attending VBS at church, a little baby sitting, a couple of nights out with friends, and another home study meeting. Hope it's a good week for you!