Another Home Study Visit

Last Thursday we had another home study visit. This time it wasn't actually at our home, but in the Lifeline office in Huntsville, AL. Prior to this visit Dan and I had to complete a VERY extensive autobiography that included everything from our relationship to our parents when we were young to our marriage life. There were questions like: How did your parents show affection to you and your siblings? What were your hobbies, interests, activities in high school? What are the emotional roles in your marriage? The list goes on and on and on and on. While it was very time consuming to complete I understand why they want us to provide that information. They need to get to know us and understand us as best they can. Like I said before, it seems as though they want to be able to help with any issues that need addressing not try to uncover things that deem us unfit for adoption. Our visit went great! We could not be more pleased to have the social worker we were assigned. She has made us feel very comfortable throughout the entire process.

Our next scheduled visit is July 1st. This one will be in our home and our children will be present so our social worker can watch us interact as a family. Before that visit we have to complete a set of discussion questions as well as a transracial exercise. We are also to be working on all the education pieces they have for us including: reading a book called The Connected Child,   reading quite a bit of information on Ethiopia itself, reading some information on our agencies (un)Adopted program, and completing a 10+ hour Hague training. We are almost finished with all the education already, which is great!

In other news....Thanks to Aly (http://erpbyalyson.com/blog/) I have new portraits of my three girls!!! Could not be more excited! Here are a few....