Meeting Dos & Disney

We completed our second meeting this week! This was our individual interview with Bethany. We have one more visit and one class to go to complete our home study! So we are about half way done. So excited!

The meeting went well. They mainly asked questions about our background, our family, and things. We cannot wait to move on to the next step and have our profiles be active. We are just so eager to become parents and share our love with a baby.

We were in Disney last week. This really made me wish we had a baby to share this wonderful experience. I was at one of the Disney resorts for a work trip. Brian came along so he could go to Universal Studios and Disney World. It was soo much fun! We had great food. Brian got to ride a lot of rides, and we made some great memories. Since it was a work trip, I did not get to visit the parks I wanted to visit, but I had a lot of fun at the resort and at Downtown Disney.

I work for an international honor society. It was very touching and fulfilling to see our members enjoy the convention. We had great academic and inspirational speakers. It just made me feel great about where I work and the impact we have on the students that we have as members!

 

1 down!

Today we had our first in-home visitation with the adoption agency. Basically we just discussed the neighborhood, the house, and went over our backgrounds again. The social worker was very complimentary of our house and yard (even though the yard is kind of basically just weeds now since the Bermuda grass is still basically dormant.). 

The thing I am also very happy about today is how well behaved the cats were! They basically just laid in their respective sleep spots and looked majestic except for Martini who was nosy as always and had to be in the middle of us as usual. 

Now we have about two weeks before we go for interviews again but this time more in depth and in their office. 

Clean, clean, and clean

So Brian spilled the beans! First home visit!!! How exciting!!

Our house is pretty neat and tidy most of the time.  Brian has OCD, so that helps with keeping everything nice and neat.  However, it looks like a lot of the nursery and front yard to-do's will be done this weekend!  The nursery is kind of a disarry of baby items and cuteness right now.  I will try to arrange the room better and hang some of the artwork I've accumulated for the nursery these past few months.

As for the yard, our cute cheery succulents did not survive the winter and look pretty sad right now.  I need to head to the garden center and get expert advise about something low maintenance and evergreen to go in our cool pots in front of our house.

Besides those two major areas, the house is pretty much put together.  We hope the agency loves our little house as much as we do.  We think it would be perfect to raise a family in.  I am eager to know what questions she will ask us.  It is just kind of hard being judged, but we are confident that we rock and hope our agency will think we rock too.

Please pray for us!  We are so ready to start our family and share our love with a child.

First home visit!

Yesterday we received notice that we are ready for our initial home visit! This was wonderful news. We figured it would take at least a few weeks to get to this step since we only turned in our paperwork last week. I guess this weekend means big time Spring cleaning! So excited to move one step forward!