Not everyone will understand your journey. That's fine. It's not their journey to make sense of. It's yours.
We received the requirements the Media Department needed to be able to start "marketing" us. They needed two "Dear Birth Mother" letters (so we each wrote one) and 100 pictures. Couples, individual "action" pictures, pictures of the boys, home, etc....Thank goodness I carry my camera everywhere! They would let us know when our websites would be up and birth mothers' actually had our pictures to look at.
And our first Home Study was scheduled!
Our home was unnaturally clean! I vacuumed every room twice, dusted, scrubbed the toilets in every bathroom, and hung up pictures I have been putting off hanging. Does this look like the perfect home for a baby? Would our social worker see right through everything that was perfectly placed and think we were being "fake". How does one prepare their home for a life changing event?
We were lucky enough to get Michelle. She was our social worker in charge of our home study. She was very nice and laid back and has also adopted two children. A home study is mandatory for adoption and is carried out solely by your social worker, so I was happy Michelle was so awesome! She came to our home three different times and gave us another ream of paper to fill out to complete our home study, along with telling us we needed to complete 10 hours each of "education". Education? I have raised two boys, I think real life is education enough! But, we obliged and watched our movies, had "story time" in the car where I would read chapters of books out loud while Greg drove and write reports on what we learned. We had to get background checks from local, state and FBI. I started second guessing myself on if I had a criminal record or if we were qualified to parent...even though we were in the process of parenting Tre' and Taylen. It's amazing how much this process makes you question all your natural abilities.
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