Home Study Update...

So I'm sitting upstairs in the bedroom right now, while David is downstairs with our social worker.  Yep, that's right.  We are right in the midst of our home study! Our social worker came out last night for three hours, and interviewed David and I.  I think it went really good.  We just answered questions about our marriage, our finances, our families, our parenting styles, etc.  All these things were a part of the 51 page profile we each had to fill out, so we sort of expected it all.

It was very low key, and comfortable.  We sat at the table and drank pink lemonade.  I had a little platter of carrots, celery, cucumber, pita chips, tortilla  chips, and hummus to munch on.  Our social worker told me I didn't have to feed her, but it was THREE hours, from 4:30 to 7:30, and I knew my stomach would be growling if I didn't have something to munch on.  I'm glad we had something to eat, and between the three of us, we killed that platter.

Today I had my individual interview with the social worker first.  We talked for an hour and a half, mostly about my family and childhood.  None of the questions were hard, except for one.  She asked me who the most influential person in my life was.  This question isn't really supposed to be difficult, but I knew this was a question from my personal profile (which she compares my answers to) and I could not, for the life of me, remember who I had written down and why.   Which is sort of embarrassing, because if this person is the MOST influential person, you would think they would have had a big enough influence on me that I would think of the same person twice.   So of course I laughed, and told her I knew it was a question on the profile, and I couldn't remember who I had written down.  She laughed too and told me its not a test, and if they don't match, its not a big deal.  I suppose its not a huge problem to have more than one influential person in your life, right?  So I went with my gut, and told her the person that came to my mind right away, and talked it up :)

Now David is downstairs.  I would love to be a fly on the wall and hear what he is saying.  :)  Its fun to think in another hour or so, our part of the home study is done!  Then we just wait for our social worker to write it up, and get it reviewed and we are all set.  Unfortunately for us, the person who reviews our home study at our agency is off for most of the month of June, so that may hold us up a little.  But no worries :)  We are confident God has our child(ren) in mind, and will work out the timing perfectly for us to bring them home.