Well, the home study is over and we made it through. I tried to kill myself before hand though. In all my smartness, I decided 48 hours before hand to frame numerous different family pixs and hang them. I also decided to hang other decorative items that I have been putting off for more than 3 years. Nothing like a good home study to get your ass in gear! Then while I was walking through Target, I found 2 huge prints that would go above our bed. Decided to throw those in the card. It wasn't until I got out to the car that I was in a bit of a predicament. I was driving Steve's Nissan Z. Have you seen the truck in these cars? It's basically NON existent. I had 2 huge framed prints and a few other bags. After a bit, everything was in the car and I was on my way home to try and hang everything on the wall. While in the middle of hanging everything, my housekeeper called to say she would be able to come by and help clean. THANK GOD! That way I was only up until 11pm instead of 1am getting the house together. On top of everything else, work was crazy off the hook too. I came in to my "old" school taking over the master schedule with a brand new principal. Yikes! I had major changes to make the same day I had to leave work at 2pm to make it home in time. Luckily I got out of there on time and still had a complete head of hair.
I opened my email about 5 minutes before the social worker got there. I had asked a quesiton on the Russian Adoption board for some advice. One of the gals replied back that her social worker didn't like an immaculate home. Wholy shit! I'd just spent the past 48 hours picking up things that had been laying around for MONTHS and cleaned off 1 year of crap that had accumulated in the "scrap room." I was a little nervous. I told Steve to throw some dirty laundry on the floor. I decided it was too late and was just going to go with it.
The home study really wasn't that big of a deal. The social worker interviewed the 2 of us together and then by ourselves. While Steve was doing his interview, I went upstairs and laid on the sofa and took a little cat nap. It felt good after trying to burn the candle at both ends. Total time for the home study was about 3.5 hours. She sent us an email today telling us she had a nice time meeting us. That was very nice. She also sent us some websites and books to buy.
So from here, the social worker is going to type up a report. She's going to send it to us for review and then we'll send it back to her so she can formally type it up. After that, it'll go to the BCIS (Immigaration) for approval. Of course before all of this can happen, we have to send them a check. Once the home study report is done, we go on the referral list. I didn't think it would happen that fast. I thought we'd have to wait for approval from the BCIS. Yeah, we could be parent by this summer!
We were watching an Adoption show on Discovery Health this evening. For some reason, it made me cry. I wonder if AF is on her way again. Just watching that show makes me excited for our time to come. Guess just having the home study makes me feel like we're one step closer. We have a lot of hurdles to jump over and we just made it over one of them.
Well, tomorrow is Saturday and I am going to sleep in. All this running around like a chicken with it's head cut off is catching up to me. The house is sooooo clean it actually scares me so I dont' have to worry about cleaning. Not like I worried much about it before.
It's late and I think I'm gonna hit the hay! Hope all is well with everyone.
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