Home Study and waiting.......

I guess you guys have been wondering what's going on since I haven't posted an entry in a few weeks.  Well, life has been going on!  And, you know life doesn't get put on hold....

This past Monday, Chad and I went to the adoption agency to meet with our adoption specialist for our individual home study interviews.  That was somewhat of a strange meeting.  We were interviewed separately.  Chad went first.  I think he was a bit nervous...but he would never admit that to anyone!  While he was in there I decided to do a little shopping at Babies R Us.  A little premature, you say?  Well, probably so but I like to be prepared.  After Babies R Us, I went to Chickfila.....and found that Peach milkshakes are back!!!  Yippee!!!  By that time, it was my turn to be interviewed.  I returned to the agency a few minutes ahead of time.  When Chad came out, he had spoken with our adoption specialist for an hour and a half.  What happened to him?  He usually doesn't talk very much as most of you know....well, he turned into a "chatty" person that day.  So, that meant I only had about 40 minutes to speak with her before her next appointment arrived.  Good.  I want to get it over with.  The questions she asked me were the same ones she asked Chad.  More than likely we had mostly the same answers.  The hardest question was about my goals for our family and for me individually.  So, in all it was a good interview.  Hopefully, she liked what we said.

We finished our profile book the night before we went for our individual interviews so we took it down to her for approval.  We worked so hard on the profile.  As most of you know, Chad is a perfectionist so every word and every picture had to be absolutely perfect--in his eyes at least.  Our adoption specialist liked the profile book but she wanted to look at it more closely to see if there were any changes that need to be made prior to printing more copies.  We have to print and bind 8 copies of the profile book.

Now, we wait.  She did give us some more paperwork to complete and mail back to her.  However, we can't send it until our doctor completes the paperwork we gave him to complete about our health.  Waiting, always waiting.  Once those papers get mailed in to the agency, we wait some more.  Our letters of reference is the next thing we wait on.  After those have been turned in, we wait some more on our FBI criminal background check.  Hopefully, it will be back during the first part of June.  When that is complete, we schedule our home visit for the last part of the home study.  At the home visit, our adoption specialist comes to visit us at home to see where we live and the place where the baby will be in our home.  With the Lord's help, the time will go by swiftly---I hope.  We have 7 weeks of school left and they will go by fast with as much stuff as I have to get finished by the end of May.  Also, Chad and I are in charge of VBS this year, so that will help us to keep busy as well.

Please continue to keep us in your prayers.  The Lord is still on the Throne, and He is still supplying all our needs.  I would like to say how blessed I felt at church service on Sunday.  We had an amazing service!  The power and love of God was in the service.  What a great way to start our revival week!  I want to leave you with this verse I found in Habakkuk.


"For this vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie:  though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry."  Habakkuk 2:3

Watch for my next entry soon....."The Fun Stuff---nursery pictures"