Home studies are weird.
What do you have your home studied for? Pass an inspection before selling your house? To make sure you have load-bearing walls where you want to put in new cabinets? To see if that leak is something much worse?
How about to see if you are fit to be parents?
Home studies are weird. But, as we've learned, home studies are necessary. Not the necessary like you need to get a college degree to get a job necessary; necessary like you have to be a woman to have a baby necessary; necessary like you have to wear a helmet to play football; necessary like you have to have to use eggs if you want to make an omelette (don't talk to us about the fake stuff). Necessary like you can't adopt your child unless someone comes to your home and says 'yes, these people are not terrible' and then takes your 13 items (financial documents, background checks, doctors' notes) and says 'yes, these people are still not terrible'.
But, good news, we should get the official results next Monday, December 2nd, that we are NOT terrible people! We got an email today from Debra from Sunshine State Adoption and Home Study Services that said all our paperwork is in, and as long as none of our financial documents come back showing fraud (if we've committed fraud I don't know where the money is...) then we will get our gold seal of approval, which is necessary to continue on with our adoption agency.
We hope you know that in this post we are being silly and sarcastic; we are grateful for the thorough process that parents have to go through so that these darling children are placed in warm and welcoming homes. It can be (and has been) a taxing process but we are grateful for the steps as they have given us new ways to see progress as we pursue our child. We'll keep you posted when we get the official word.
By His grace, for His glory,
Bethany and Wayne
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