HomeStudy Done!

Today we received our final homestudy in the mail. This process took 2 meetings in a Social Workers home and 1 in ours! We spoke with her on everything from our childhood, to our parents, our marriage, our parenting styles, how we plan to raise our adopted daughter. I thought the process would be dreadful, but it turned out to be a lot of fun! The social worker combined all of our personal and marriage history, financial information, and preferences for an adopted child to form our HomeStudy.

The Month of Paperwork

I am really glad I am a stay at home mom doing this adoption, because if I weren't I would probably be fired! Between all of the signing, notarizing, copying, organizing it is really a lot of work! We have employment verification, financial, mortgage letters, marriage license, medical records, FBI fingerprints and background checks, pictures, passports, etc that all get combined to form your "dossier."

Although this seems like an awful amount of work, this is way better than my last pregnancy so I am not complaining!! I was on bedrest for 6 months...although looking back I had it pretty easy! My biggest problem was on Sundays when there wasn't much on TV!