To Do - Home Visit - Done!!

Our visit went very well last night. Both case workers/social workers came for the assessment. They were very nice. They were impressed with DS (which who couldn't be, right? ) He took them for a tour around the house and down into his playroom. Jamie even played cars with him while answering all of our questions. The only thing they mention to us was getting one of those cord thingies for the blinds in what will become our second child's bedroom. We never leave those down and in reach anyway so no biggie there.

The one downer is that usually these classes only have 4 couples but ours will have 10 which means that with only 2 case workers to write up the home studies each will have 5 to do. That means ours may not be ready for approval until March. Seems like forever to me but then again, I am kinda hoping for a Gotcha Date in May so that I can take a couple of weeks of adoption leave and then be home for the summer while our child is adjusting to life with us.

The CW's faces lit up when we mentioned that we weren't looking for a particular ethnicity or sex. One immediately says, "We have a beautiful 5 year old African American girl!!" Of course, my heart jumped but I reminded myself that this is going to be quite an adjustment for DS and that we couldn't make matters more confusing by replacing him in the birth order...he is soooooooo looking forward to being "the Big Brother"!

Anyway, other than that, things went very well and we are excited about our classes on Saturday. Lots of stuff ahead so maybe the next few months will fly by with the paperwork, the holidays and the home visits.

OMG! Time for the Home Visit!!!

Thank goodness I picked up the house and the playroom this weekend! I got a call at 9:30a this morning that Child & Family Services will be coming tomorrow night to do our Home Visit. I don't know why but this made me jump a mile. I even mis dialed when trying to call DH! LOL. I'm such a goof.

I really hope that this visit goes well. I can't see why it wouldn't and fortunately Clyde will have been at doggie daycare all day so he will be nice and worn out so as not to become a nuisance!! Hopefully DS will be ok. I can just see him dragging the SW all over the house showing her absolutely EVERYTHING!!! Can't have any secrets with a very social 4 year old in the house.

We have our very first MAPP class on Saturday and with this visit, everything has just become so clear that, yes, we are actually on our way to bringing home our second child!! Fingers crossed, please!!!

OMG! So soon?? Who would have thunk??

We got our invite to MAPP classes and we start Nov. 3rd!! Yippee!! We have been invited to attend the condensed version: 4 weeks, 9a to 3p each class. We'll be done with our last class on Dec 1st then on to the Home Study!! I never would have thought it would be soooooooooo close.