The second part of our Home Study went very smoothly. Our social worker said that she would get to our house about 9 am. She pulled in the driveway as the church bells were chiming 9 o'clock. I was very impressed!
She did Daniel's individual interview first. Then after his part, we did a portion as a couple. We heard more about the state laws and about the lawyer that is going to assist us with all the legal stuff. We have such a great team already in place to help us through the hard stuff! Then our social worker asked us about parenting styles, goals and how we will approach parenting.
During a short break, she glanced through our rough draft of the profile. She thought it looked great. I even had her read a few of the pages that I was a little unsure of - and she thought they sounded wonderful! She said that she was going to look through it more thoroughly and have a birth mother counselor look at it too. But she did say not to expect much critique, because what I had was already great!!! My effort really paid off. I had put my heart and soul into it. (Daniel, of course, did his portion of it. I did the layout and some of the wording to make it flow. And I did all the layout of the pictures - even put a drop shadow around each one!)
[I had worked all day the day before to get everything in order and to make it look the way that I wanted it. From about 10 am to 5 pm straight. It felt like I was back in school getting a project done to turn it in the next day!]
So now, I'm going to be putting the finishing touches on the Profile, like labeling pictures and making it flow even better - and sound like us! I was unsure if we had to stick to the format that the agency had, but our social worker said that I could just go for it and make it my own! They didn't want to hinder creativity. Of course, within reason! But I'm going to have something that really represents US!
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