Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Home study interviews

Yesterday we had our home study interviews, and they really weren't that bad! We had two people and the wife interviewed me, and her husband interviewed Blake and saw the house and then they talked to us together, and that was it!

Blake and I, comparing notes yesterday, found that they asked us very different questions, probably to get a full picture of our family. They also let us know that a lot of what they know about us comes from the stack of papers that we had to give them, including our references, and the interviews in some ways are just a formality to match that what they read in our autobiographies and see in the references matches what we are really like.

I do have to say that it is really starting to feel more real now... besides the one pesky video we haven't gotten to yet... it is just waiting for paperwork type steps before we are at the stage where we are waiting (months?) for that special call (or e-mail?) that says will you accept this child and go through a bunch of more steps for them and raise them and call them yours. That step is huge! I think it is at that step that we go from the potential parent to really starting to feel like parents. And it is coming closer now...

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