Chinese proverb

"An invisible red thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place or circumstances. The thread may stretch or tangle but will never break."
(ancient Chinese proverb)


Thursday, June 14, 2012

Home Study

We have completed our two home study visits.  The first one was last Thursday morning.  The kids knew something was up because I was furiously cleaning the house for two days.  I found out on Tuesday afternoon (June 5th) that the social worker would visit our house Thursday morning (June 7th).  I have known since day one that this day would come...but I guess I thought I would have the luxury of more than 48 hours notice to get my whole house in order.  Riley is sooo sweet:  I found him Thursday morning struggling with the comforter on his bed, he was "trying to find all 4 corners".  He asked me if it was the day the social worker was coming...he wanted to make his bed.  My heart melted!  He has never attempted to make his bed before, but he knew it was an important day and he wanted to do his part.  The second visit was Monday afternoon, June 10th.  When she got to our house at 3:45pm the boys were just getting home from school and Sean was just arriving home from work.  We had exactly two hours to offer her because Sean had a doctor appointment at 5:45, Aidan had a baseball game at 5:45 and Riley had soccer practice at 6:00....welcome to our crazy, busy but wonderful life! 

1st visit
            interview Sean alone
     interview Shannon alone
     speak with Bud (Sean's dad)
     speak with Maura (the social worker hardly got a word in...we warned her!)
     House Tour

2nd visit:
      interview Sean and Shannon together
      speak with Riley and Aidan (and of course Maura wanted to talk too!) 
      time to ask the MANY questions that we have

Now we wait for our home study approval.  (although she "unofficially" told us that she was going to approve us)  Hopefully we'll have the 15 page notarized home study report in about two weeks.

Next step:   File the I-800A (request to be approved by US Immigration and Customs to adopt a child from China)  During the 2-4 month wait for that form to be approved we will be preparing all the documents for our Dossier (which is the official paperwork that is sent to China)...let the paperchase begin!


              

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