Home study Application is APPROVED!!!!!!!

On May 10th 2017, Tyler and I officially became "paper pregnant"!!!! Too bad it's not guaranteed to be 9 months long.

So what actually occurs at this point!?!!??!
We welcome our social worker into our home for 3 to 4 visits that include an overview of the house, and interviews of myself and Tyler together and separately. The paper portion is a collection of items that we must gather slowly and during specified times throughout the process. We'll have to gather information about our finances, employment, background checks, and much more. There will be conversations about our readiness and reasons about wanting to adopt, potentially a walk-through of our neighborhood, outline of our social life, parenting experiences, and daily life routines.

The home study has been called the "most invasive" or "lengthy" portion of the adoption process. It is hard to let a complete  stranger into your home to essentially judge you in a good way. After all, priority # 1 is what is best for the child in question. I wouldn't want to work with an agency that wasn't about that. Luckily for us we have two great agencies that put the well-being of the child first.

We have until Nov/Dec before we even have home visits, so there's things like letters of references that we can get taken care of and employment verification for Tyler and myself. The more paperwork we collect now, the easier it'll be to get other things we need as Nov creeps up.

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In other news, we had to cancel our paint party due to not enough participants. We'll just reschedule it to another date and hope that more people can attend.