I read a book that said,
"A home study is not a house
study. It's a people study."
Nevertheless, this past week I spent everyday after school relentlessly scrubbing, cleaning, and organizing our house to get ready for our
adoption social worker to visit. And, I must say, I have never been prouder of
the way that our home looks. As we say in Kindergarten, "Good job,
me!"
As our friends who have adopted or are in the process of
adopting told us it would be, our home study was not at all scary. It was
actually very enjoyable.
Yes, our social worker wanted to see that our home is a safe
environment in which to bring a child. However, her visit was DEFINITELY not a
white glove test of how well I scrubbed every inch of our tile grout with a
toothbrush (because only crazy people do that...right???).
We enjoyed our weekend talking about the adoption process ahead
of us, learning more about the various countries from which we are looking to
adopt, and learning more about bonding and attaching with our child and
celebrating their unique adoption story once he or she (or they!) comes home.
We finished our weekend empowered to move
ahead with the paperwork process and on to the next stage of this beautiful
journey!
~Laura~
PS- To top it all off,
thanks to friends in our Bible study group, we got to end our weekend with our
new favorite activity...COUNTING CHANGE!
We have now received over
$400 of donations in spare change! Check the thermometer often to see our
fundraising and saving grow!
