homestudy done tomorrow; supervisor interview Thursday
I am pretty excited about tomorrow. Our home is a total mess because we’re remodeling it, but our social worker is coming over tomorrow at 1pm to complete our home study.
I realize another step in this process will be completed, but I feel sort of frustrated at the same time. Our attorney is on a vacation/sabatical, and all we’ve done is let people know that we’re looking to adopt. This seems so strange to adopt this way, just kind of waiting for a situation to present itself. I feel a little lost about what to do next once the home study is done, and when I asked our attorney, she basically said just to send out the letters letting people know we’re adopting and wait. I have nightmares and worry a lot that we will never be matched with a birth family and we’ll have to deal with not being able to be parents and learn to live as a childless couple. If that is God’s will that is His will, but I don’t feel that that is the direction we should go right now.
I just hope once the homestudy is done we will be able to focus on another step of the adoption process.
I have my interview for a supervisor position at my job on Thursday afternoon. I’m pretty excited and nervous; I already had to interview to get into the TRAINING to be a supervisor, and now I’m actually interviewing to be hired formally as a supervisor. This week, we’ve worked on packing more things at our house, put in upper cabinets in the kitchen (Donald and my father in law have done that), and then once we get to a good place I will start painting the inside of the ENTIRE house. Yes, I am super excited (Yuck.) It will all be beautiful when it’s done, but the house better sell, as we’re going to be updating/redoing everything but the carpeting, but including a carpet allowance.
Posted by: DramaQueen | 01-14-2008 | 08:01 PM
Posted in: Waiting | Progress | Moving | Packing | Getting House Ready To Sell | job | home study
Who all do you send out letters to? Agencies that do private adoptions? Or actually people you know in hopes that they will know of a situation? Do share more - I love hearing about all of this!! I am so excited for you two and can’t wait to see what special child the Lord has for you.
We send letters to all our friends and family to “warn” them that we’re adopting, and then we send letters to crisis pregnancy centers, our doctors, anyone we think that might hear of a situation of someone needing to give their child up for adoption. We’re going to be working on our letters this week, so hopefully we’ll have them out soon!
Cool, cool, cool!!!!!!! Are you just on the edge of your seat excited? I can’t wait to hear more!
Hello I live in England and have read a lot of your stuff and got hooked. I was looking for the words footprints in the sand and saw your site. I am making a card for an old boss who died, for his wife, he was a great boss to me in my time of need. He lived in Antwerpen ( I think that is Belgium ) anyway enough of me. I do hope things go well for you and you get your baby, my sister who lives in Wales is hoping to adopt her foster child who she has had since she was 18 months old she is 10 now. I will light a candle for you tonight and ask the angels to help you.
Brightest blessings Ann x
When I read this, I just had to tell you that I am constantly being told the exact same things. The one that gets me the very most is, “Oh, when you adopt, you’ll get pregnant.” My ex-supervisor says this all the time. I want to scream when people say that!