Nothing Much to Discuss

We had our first home study meeting tonight. Hooray! It was funny. We really didn’t find that we had much to talk about since we’ve been through it all last year with Nepal. Nothing has changed in our lives.

I didn’t clean the house like mad this time. It was pretty clean from small group on Sunday night anyway. I didn’t even run a vacuum through! It was an easy meeting lasting only 45minutes. We started with chit-chat but went on to talk through all the Hague questions about being convicted or pardoned of a crime, child abuse, DUI, etc. We did talk quite a bit about special needs but Jay and I have yet to have a date afternoon/night when we can go through our match form and talk about what we’re really open to. So, hopefully we can do that this Friday afternoon.

We really like our social worker! She’s so personable and encouraging, felt bad about the loss of our Nepal adoption, but spurred us on towards China. She has invested in this program herself twice now and has 2 beautiful children! I’m thrilled that she did not hand us any more forms to complete! And I’m beyond ecstatic that she only charged us an “update fee” rather than a “full re-write fee.” What a blessing! Thank you, God, for Your provision!

She got a chance to meet our college boarder and talked to him about how we know him, why he’s living here, what he’s studying and then went through all the Hague questions with him. He only needed to be here about 15 minutes and then he left to go study. Thankfully he won’t need to attend any future meetings and our social worker will be investigating whether he’ll still need to have a physical and fill out the medical forms. She says Nebraska won’t require one and from what she knows about the China program, the China government won’t require one either. Prayers appreciated for him not needing that medical file!!!

The next meeting isn’t on the calendar yet. Like I said, we laughed that we really don’t have much to talk about. So, our social worker is also going to ask our agency if they feel we need to meet again in person or if we can just correspond by email and/or phone. At this point, we’re still waiting on our local FBI fingerprints, 2 state clearance forms to arrive (IL and FL) and Jay’s medical and we can be done with the home study! I’m hopeful that perhaps it can be done by early or mid-December.

By the way, Happy National Adoption Awareness Month!  Tell someone you know about our story and maybe their hearts will open to adoption and changing the life of a child in need!