Today we had our 2nd home-study interview with our Social Worker (SW). This time it was in our home. Let me give you a glance of our life leading up to this home visit:
Fawnda- cleaning the kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, living-room, dusting, vacuuming and scrubbing the tub. Trying to calm Jason down from being totally stressing out about the SW coming to our house and having it be clean enough to parent a child.
Jason-cleaning the basement (including the storage room and laundry room), cleaning the office, vacuuming the whole house again (stupid dog hair) and the stairs, scrubbing the top of the stove, going back over all the parts of the house that Fawnda cleaned to make sure that she did a good enough job.
Thankfully we did not get into a fight about the house and we were able to get it, as Annie would say: “Shinning like the top of the Chrysler building!”
Our SW showed up at exactly 12:30 and we gave her the official tour of the house. We then sat down in the dining room to finish our interview. We talked about our parenting philosophy, our support systems and our plans to share our adoption story with our family, friends and our future child. After we were done with the interview she had some papers for us to sign, approving us for the adoption.
So our next question was: “What is our next step?” to which she replied: “you are now done with the home-study and your name is going on THE LIST!” So we are OFFICIALLY waiting. Our names are now in the Korea Program waiting to get to the top of the pile and to get our referral. This could be a long wait, and we may not see a referral for several months.
I am still in shock that we are done with all the paper work and home-study. We just have to get invited to be finger-printed for approval to bring an immigrant into the country, and to wait some more. We thought that there were still more steps to be done. I think that this waiting is going to be the hardest part because there is little we can do; up to now we have been very active in getting to the next step. Now we just wait. To help with the wait, there is a support group for waiting families that meets once a month. I am thinking of attending next month to get support and also, hopefully, to meet other adoptive families.
After we get our referral, we have to wait 12-14 weeks to travel to the country to pick up our child. We found out today that we have some time during our stay in Korea to do some site-seeing. It will be cool to go on some of the tours and learn more about the culture.
4 comments:
Hey that's totally cool guys! Congratulations on all your hard working getting you to this point. It must be a little bittersweet to have all the work done but then having to know that the waiting game has just begun. I'll be praying or you!
Praise the Lord!!! What a relief to get to this point! Enjoy your house being spotless, because when you bring your child home, it will never be spotless again. Was Daisy showing her best behavior while the SW was there? We are praying for you guys!!!
What an answer to prayer! And now you get an opportunity to reflect on the verses you have on your home page--especially.."But if we hope for what we do not have we wait for it patiently." We're praying for a speedy turn around so we can begin to show that chosen child love beyond belief!
Fawnie and Jason,
I'm soooo excited for you! And thankful that the stress of getting "on the LIST" is over, enjoy your wait with the Lord as he prepares your heart and mind for your sweet child....Have your challenge now to be looking for what the Lord wants to teach you during this time! He is an awesome God, and wants to bless you during this waiting period in ways you'd never expect! Can't wait for the shower!!!! I'm sure Grandma Patsy is dancing for joy over you too!
Love, Grand Auntie Jillie
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