(You have to sing this post to the tune of "Gilligan's Island"- it's an old show's theme song for you young people)
This is a tale of a man and wife who had a heart to adopt,
They had their home study agent come visit the house today.
Questions were asked and rooms were inspected....A three hour tour, a three hour tour....
Ok, I won't torture you any longer with my song writing talents/lack of, but I did want to post about our passing this phase of our home study- drum roll please.... the home visit and family interviews by our case worker! This was our second required meeting of three total required meetings. The first was just an brief hello meeting and we met at a coffee shop. The second meeting, well, that was today! Our case worker came to the house to interview us the parents, and our two older children, Quinn is 9 and Roosky is almost 7. She also had to interview our college renter/21 yr. old friend who is living with us, and then interview a reference of ours which was my dear friend Paige. Then there was the house tour too. It was a long three hours of juggling conversations and kids, but everything went fine.
I'll just say it was a real picture of us and here's why:
1. Everyone arrived at once. Although I had scheduled for separate arrival times, someone was late, someone was early, etc. So this made for a grand entrance of excitement from the kids. They were especially excited to see our college friend who just came back to stay with us this very moment to start his new semester. Hugs and hellos. It's a true reflection of our attempt at planning, but we've learned that plans barely work and to just roll with it.
2. Buggy, our just turned 5 year old stuck out her tongue at her little brother. She also came up to me saying that there was an emergency. It went like this, "mom, there's a real emergency here. My earring fell out. Is that an emergency?" and I reply, "no, it isn't." "Well, can you put it back in anyway?" she says. Cutie and perfectly her little self.
3. When my son, Roosky was asked if he wanted the new children to be boys or girls he replied, "Boys. And the first thing I'm going to teach them is how to tease the girls." It's true, his ornery side is seen first. Just after that statement he said, "Then I'm going to teach them sign language. You know they won't know our language so I'm going to show them this:" and he held up the 'I love you' sign. True to form, Roosky does have a thoughtful tender heart under all that boy-ness.
4. Quinn, the oldest daughter had everyone in the basement playroom playing an organized game of horses and was entertaining everyone while mommy and daddy sat at the table answering questions from the case worker. Again, this is her, she's the planner and leader in the bunch.
5. The littlest, MJ, is 2 1/2 and is just potty trained for 2 weeks now. While mom and dad are sitting at the table answering questions with the caseworker, MJ comes waddling- I mean straddle walking- can you picture this?- and says, "mom, I gotta go poo." Um, well, that's a long story there, but you can just imagine.
Thankful to have yet another check mark on the list of adoption processes and to be one more step closer to meeting our new family members!
This is a tale of a man and wife who had a heart to adopt,
They had their home study agent come visit the house today.
Questions were asked and rooms were inspected....A three hour tour, a three hour tour....
Ok, I won't torture you any longer with my song writing talents/lack of, but I did want to post about our passing this phase of our home study- drum roll please.... the home visit and family interviews by our case worker! This was our second required meeting of three total required meetings. The first was just an brief hello meeting and we met at a coffee shop. The second meeting, well, that was today! Our case worker came to the house to interview us the parents, and our two older children, Quinn is 9 and Roosky is almost 7. She also had to interview our college renter/21 yr. old friend who is living with us, and then interview a reference of ours which was my dear friend Paige. Then there was the house tour too. It was a long three hours of juggling conversations and kids, but everything went fine.
I'll just say it was a real picture of us and here's why:
1. Everyone arrived at once. Although I had scheduled for separate arrival times, someone was late, someone was early, etc. So this made for a grand entrance of excitement from the kids. They were especially excited to see our college friend who just came back to stay with us this very moment to start his new semester. Hugs and hellos. It's a true reflection of our attempt at planning, but we've learned that plans barely work and to just roll with it.
2. Buggy, our just turned 5 year old stuck out her tongue at her little brother. She also came up to me saying that there was an emergency. It went like this, "mom, there's a real emergency here. My earring fell out. Is that an emergency?" and I reply, "no, it isn't." "Well, can you put it back in anyway?" she says. Cutie and perfectly her little self.
3. When my son, Roosky was asked if he wanted the new children to be boys or girls he replied, "Boys. And the first thing I'm going to teach them is how to tease the girls." It's true, his ornery side is seen first. Just after that statement he said, "Then I'm going to teach them sign language. You know they won't know our language so I'm going to show them this:" and he held up the 'I love you' sign. True to form, Roosky does have a thoughtful tender heart under all that boy-ness.
4. Quinn, the oldest daughter had everyone in the basement playroom playing an organized game of horses and was entertaining everyone while mommy and daddy sat at the table answering questions from the case worker. Again, this is her, she's the planner and leader in the bunch.
5. The littlest, MJ, is 2 1/2 and is just potty trained for 2 weeks now. While mom and dad are sitting at the table answering questions with the caseworker, MJ comes waddling- I mean straddle walking- can you picture this?- and says, "mom, I gotta go poo." Um, well, that's a long story there, but you can just imagine.
Thankful to have yet another check mark on the list of adoption processes and to be one more step closer to meeting our new family members!
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