Interview

Tonight we had our first interview with our adoption agent. It wasn't as bad as what I thought it might be. It's really hard when someone you don't know is coming to your house and checking you out and asking questions. She asked us questions about ourselves, our families, our relationship with each other, how we grew up, our academics, and so much more. She said there are more questions, but she would email them to us because they may take a while to think about how we would answer them.

She will be coming back next week to do our safety audit. This is where we have to make sure we have a tornado/fire escape plan, our cleaning products are away from where the child can get to them. I don't think it will be too hard to pass this audit. We pretty much have everything taken care of already.

Training

We received a couple more training classes to work on. They are about sexual abuse and differences in culture when adopting children. I have already looked at the quizzes for both & they seem to be pretty easy. Mostly T/F for the sexual abuse which is common sense. And a Q & A for the culture one, they want to know how I would feel in a different culture. This one wouldn't be too hard since we have had two exchange students who lived with us for a while. We dealt with differnt cultures, one was a culture close to ours, the other was completely opposite. We have learned that it is hard for 2 cutlures to mix. It takes hard work on both sides for everyone to be happy and things to work out correctly.

Miscelaneous

Not too much is going on to be updated with on the adoption journey. We are still waiting to hear from our homestudy agency to find out what other classes we need to take. We are wanting to get those over with and are a little curious why they are taking so long. Our fire inspection is stil on the list of things that need to be done. We got our flooring in & our house looks wonderful now. I just need to clean up the leftover trash and put some of the other things back into place. Today I found a leak in our laundry room.. one more thing to fix. I think we have a leaky pipe under the house.

I found out last week that I will be loosing my job as of June 1st. The office I am working at is closing its doors for now. So that means I will be staying home for a while anyway. At least till school starts and I can get a substitute license for the area schools.

I have gotten all the pictures I want to use for mey profile to give to the adoption agency for the expectant parents to look at. My goal is to show the expectant parents what is important to us. Things like family, friends, church, and just spending time with each other. We don't have a lot of extra money to take a vacation somewhere spectacular every year, but we do try to get away even if it is just to visit family in another state. I want the parents to chose us because of the who we are, not because of what we have materially.

Mailed Paperwork

Today, I mailed most of our Homestudy paperwork. YEA!!!!! I checked on our background checks Tuesday & mine had gone through, but Justin's hadn't...yet. There is nothing that should be holding his up, I just think it is taking his longer. We should be getting our fire inspection done next week. I got my lamiate flooring put in the last couple days, it looks really good! Now we just need to put all the furniture back and I think it will look even better.