When Love Takes You In - Steven Curtis Chapman

Our First Meeting Done!!!!

Well, thank you to everyone who was praying for us this past weekend - our first Home Study meeting went by like a breeze. Mike came right at 4:00pm on the dot and sat and talked with us asked us a lot of questions about our childhood, what our relationship was with our parents growing up - what it was like now. Both Brandon and I have been blessed with such great parents that it was a fairly easy effortless interview. He was very gracious with his time answering any questions that we had. Then we gave him a large wad of cash (we are on the cash envelope system right now!) and he left! It was over with before I even knew it. the funny part is preparing for a Home Study. My husband SCRUBBED our bathroom for 45 minutes to make sure it was spick-and-span clean, and Mike didnt even use the restroom! He came in, sat down on the couch, we talked, he left. No white glove test. (I had horror movies playing in my head of how we would be deemed unfit parents because he would find a pair of misplaced underware under the couch or something - lol)

So now we wait for our references to be sent back to him and for him to close out the Home Study process. Once we are approved we can file our paperwork with the immagration office and start to apply for international adoption grants. Anyone with bright fundraising ideas - please let me know!!!

Preparing for the Home Study

Brandon and I spent a few hours on Friday night filling out our autobiographies for the home study. They are 13 pages long and ask you very in depth questions about your childhood, your parents, how you view live and how you will raise your child. The questions were not hard, per say, but there are SO MANY of them and some of them really make you stop and think.

I honestly think that after going through the process of a HomeSudy, it should almost be a mandatory thing for any young couple who is interested in starting a family. Brandon and I have even had questions that, in answering them, found out we had never discussed them together!

We are enjoying the process and looking forward to our first home study meeting on the 25th. We are not really sure what to expect. We have done some reading on line, but if there is anyone who has info on what we are going to experience at our initial meeting, that would be great!