No one said this process would be easy. This statement is becoming more and more true everyday. Things are beginning to get very complicated and very difficult. Our placing agency had some issues with our home study. These issues are slowing down the process of our home study going to court and becoming official. We finished our home study about three weeks ago and it is still not an official legal document. Here are the issues we are facing.
Our placing agency does not agree with spanking children. We plan to biblically spank our children as a form of discipline when necessary. We put this on our home study which everyone assumed would not be a problem. Our home study agency is a christian agency so they have no problem with spanking. We are going to need to read articles and take anti-spanking parenting classes to make our placing agency more comfortable with us.
The placing agency will not place children out of birth order. This means that we are going to have to adopt two children who are younger than Irelyn. So basically two children under 1 year of age. This is not what we imagined but we have prayed that God would give the placing agency wisdom so we are just going with it.
We are still waiting to talk to our placing agency. Until we talk to them, we will not be able to officially complete our home study. I think the most difficult part of the whole situation is just a lack of communication with our placing agency. We are having a hard time getting a hold of them. I am sure they are very busy but its just so hard for a mom to wait to bring her children home.
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