Today we had our first home study visit with our social worker from Children's Bureau. She is very nice and everything went very smoothly. She was here about an hour and a half and we covered all sorts of things such as why we're choosing to adopt, why Ethiopia, how did we know we were ready for another child (do you really ever KNOW), do we think we'll face cultural and racial issues, etc. I felt like everything went very well and we were certainly very open and honest about all our hopes, dreams, and uncertainties.
After we answered many, many questions, she took a quick tour of the house. Grayson was very happy to show her his playroom and his bedroom. Each time he ran into the room, threw up his arms, and yelled, "YEAH!" He knows these are his rooms and he is so proud to show them off.
We asked the social worker a few questions about what to expect as far as how long it will take to get a draft of our home study and then the finished product. We were very pleasantly surprised to hear that once she does our second visit and has all our other paperwork (which she has most of), it will only take her a week to do a draft. At that point, her supervisor has to check it, we check it, and our adoption agency checks it. Then, any corrections that are needed are made and we get the final copy! I'm really hoping that if all goes well, we should have the final copy by the end of June or beginning of July! This all keeps us right on track for getting our dossier into our agency by the middle of August (if not sooner).
S0, we have our second home study visit on Friday! Yay! We are really making progress - very exciting, kind of scary!
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