First Home study visit Monday!

Hi all! Well, Monday we have our first home study visit with social worker. We have been through a home study before...as we were applying for foster care through DFCS. Actually...we just finished our last home study about 2 months ago. We were approved, so we are thinking this one will be pretty quick...at least that's what we are praying:)

We were on the road to being a foster care family from last April until we began applying to adopt from Uganda last month. The crazy thing is that...though we completed all the courses (7 weeks of 3 hours classes), did all the paper work, AND were approved in our home study...we NEVER have heard back from DFCS (Department of Family and Children Services). We were approved in our home study back in the summer around July...and DFCS has NEVER contacted us to see if we were registered foster parents.

So, those who knew about the foster care (I didn't write about it on the blog because we were waiting until it was all completed) wondered what we would do about being foster parents if we adopted. Well...I guess there is no need to worry! We have called and called and emailed and emailed them with no response!

I wonder if God held all that back so that we would be opened to adopting at this time. Honestly, if we had a little foster baby in the home right now we would have put the thought of adopting from Uganda away!

So, thought we have had our home study with DFCS recently, our social worker who did it was not certified to write international adoption home studies. So...we had to start over! Oh, well...we didn't have to pay for it anyway...so really it isn't even our property. It is hard to redo everything we have just finished (drug tests, fingerprints, references, paper work, etc.), but we want it done correctly and by someone who knows how to write international home studies!

So...Monday that begins again. Pray that all will go well and that it will be written very quickly! She said if we were willing to go quickly she was ready to do that also! Girl, we are READY!

It's like dominoes with international adoption. We have to complete the home study in order to send it to the US Department of Homeland Security...to get approval (for our I-600A) to bring back an orphan from another country. That approval takes like 2 months. So...that might put us not even getting approved until November...right before all the holidays.

We already sent off that form without the home study and hope to get logged in a little early and then will send off the home study when we get it. Well, that is all we have right now. Pray if you are led for our home study on Monday...gonna be organizing and cleaning on Sunday night (again). At least now I know what it's like!