1st Home Study done!!!!!!!!!!!!

This evening we had our first home study meeting with Lindsey from God's Children Adoption Agency. She came to our home for this first meeting which was a little nerve-wracking, but at the same time nice to get it done with!

She asked a lot of questions to get a feel for our personalities, backgrounds, families, our marriage, etc...such as:

Describe your mom/dad
How were you raised/discplined?
Is this how we plan to raise our kids?
Would you change anything?
What's your relationship like with your family?
Parents' jobs
Describe your marriage
Did you enjoy high school/college?
How did you meet?
Where we've lived/reasons for moving
Our jobs
Plans after baby comes home
Backgrounds
Do we plan to raise our kids in the Catholic church?

And many, many more questions, but you get the picture. We met with her for about 2.5 hours and showed her our house, what room we plan to make the nursery.

Also, one question I "had" to ask is she would approve us for adopting siblings and if we had adequate space and she said yes!! We have been talking about siblings, but that's a whole different post! :)

We were so excited to get this first home study done...it was a huge relief and a big step forward in our adoption. We are eager for our 2nd home study!

For now we just keep on working on paperwork, forms, gathering birth/marriage certificates, etc...

IAG received our application today and will be sending us our packet next week and we will be talking with our coordinator next week to go everything we need to get started! Everything is becoming very real!! Finally!!!

Until my next post...

Tasha