Homestudy visit #1: Complete!

We are so backwards in this process, so to those watching our journey to try and plan their own, I don't suggest using our timeline as a guide!

We FINALLY completed homestudy visit #1. It went well, I guess (?) I thought it would last an hour, instead, it was about 2 1/2 hours. Our lovely small group friends offered to babysit the kids; thank goodness for them, because I don't know how we'd have managed carting the kids along! The visit was mostly "getting to know you" type questions. For those that know the mister, you know how social and, ahem, chatty, he can get. I had to keep kicking him under the table to signify to stop talking, otherwise it would have been a four hour visit instead! (Love you honey, but you know it's true. And that's what you get for telling her you love me because I speak gibberish. Who says that, anyway? lol)

Anyway, she handed us a ton more paperwork, told us to fill it out, send it back, and our full day interview will be scheduled quickly. She assured me the house can look lived in, but suggested it not look like we belong on the show "Hoarders" (and then telling me that one social work is a "clean freak" and now having me terrified that will be our worker. Anyone wanna come help clean? hehe.)

So, this weekend, though busy already, will now be filled with finishing lots and lots of paperwork. I'm happy, because at least that means we are surely getting somewhere, right?

I have lots more to share, but will save it for another time. Today I vow to face and defeat my enemy. Yes, laundry, I am taking you down!