We finished all of our home study visits! Nathan and I each met for our individual interviews and then we met as a family again. You're only required to have one visit in the home but with small children it was easier to have her come back to our house instead of hiring a sitter again.
I think it went really well! She is actually approving us for two children. TWO. But the request and at the top of the study and on our paperwork will only be for one. Still requesting a boy ages 18months to 4 years. Basically by being approved for two it shows that we are very capable and ready to adopt a child. That we could provide for two more if needed. In a rare case we could still be referred two children or if we heard of two specific children and prayed and felt like that was the direction for us to take it would make it a lot easier instead of having to redo some of the paperwork. We don't want to put God in a box. We believe we're only going to have three children but we've mentioned the idea of siblings or adopting again in the future. Like I said, we just want to be open to wherever the Holy Spirit leads us. I think the most exciting part of that is it gave me peace that we did really well on the home study! It will be another week probably before we have the paperwork and receive our report.
We go on Friday for hopefully our last visit with the psychologist. He is supposed to turn in all of our paperwork and reports. As long as he followed the requirements and everything is approved with our family coordinator we will be finished with that part of it.
Closer and Closer! Praying we will have everything together for our dossier and approved by mid April!! This blog has been pretty quiet so I pray people are reading this. Thank you to those of you who are following our journey and praying for us!
