This Monday is our home study. What is a home study you ask? From what I gather, it is something that everyone who is adopting freaks out about. A social worker must come in your home and make sure it is suitable for our child, months before our child enters our home, months before we even know Little R. Our house needs to be clean. Really clean. And a few safety things have to be completed. Last week I went from shopping online for clothes to ordering carbon monoxide detectors and outlet plugs (another step to parenthood)! Then the social worker will sit down with us, together and individually, for THREE hours.
This whole process is full of mixed emotions. It feels as if this home study has come so quickly, maybe because I wondered when we would ever get here. It's as if we can finally lift our head's from the mounds of paperwork and talk to someone, which is refreshing, before we go back to the stack. Our lives are currently so hectic and the to do list is oh so long, but I am thankful God is sovereign - that He knew what our house and heart looked like long before He asked us to adopt our child. That He knows Little R and exactly how long we must wait before meeting him/her at the perfect time.
And in the midst of this ongoing preparation...I sit here and wonder, wonder what Little R is up to today...
Little R is wondering what his room is going to look like!! It will be extremely clean -- the law requires it!
ReplyDeleteWe are praying for you guys! When your social worker walks in your home, he/she(?) is going to feel the love of God in that place! Who wouldn't want a child to grow up in that kind of environment?!
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