Irelyn and I were hard at work yesterday making sure everything was ridiculously clean for our case worker. She arrived at our house at eight this morning to perform a home inspection and help us get started on the home study paperwork. She was so kind and made us feel very comfortable when she started the meeting with a prayer. What a blessing to have such a Christ centered adoption agency.
Irelyn laughs at us as she realizes that we went a little overboard on the cleaning. When we showed our case worker around the house, we were surprised at how little she did want to look at. "You mean you don't want to check every square inch of my fridge for food particles?" Too bad I spent a lot of time making sure it was immaculate. O well...now we can enjoy our model home for about a day!
This is Gavin making sure there is nothing dangerous in the drawers that the kids can reach. We did this to every drawer and cabinet in the house removing breakable or sharp objects. The case worker did not even check the drawers:)
We talked extensively with people who adopted domestically about the home study process. I think that domestic certification is just very different than foreign. Well we are happy to have this step out of the way and have our next meeting scheduled at the end of this month. So far it is looking like we will be able to complete our home study in a month! Praise God! This is starting to feel very real!
P.S. We are still $5000 short of what we need to get on the list. We are still selling cookies, coffee, and T-shirts on our website with can be found on the left side of my blog. We are also having another yard sale in a couple of months so let me know if you have any stuff you need to get rid of!
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