We had our 1st Home Study Meeting

Our Home Study Social Worker made her 1st visit to our house on Tuesday. She needed to document that we have running water with indoor plumbing and electricity; I think we passed that part. 

She went over the paper work we had already submitted and what we would need to have finished prior to her writing the Home Study for our dossier; we're hoping the dossier will be complete by the end of the year and off to Korea. In the meantime  our checks have been clearing from Homeland Security, Virginia DMV & the Virginia State Police so our backround checks are in full swing!

We only need to meet with the the social worker 2 more times; she lives in Fredricksburg which is an 1 1/2 away, thankfully there is another family in our area she is supporting so we are going to try and piggy back our meetings so we can split the expense.

We leave for vacation later this week so we'll have plenty of time to start reading our educational materials while we're sitting on the beach.

Until next time.....John

 

Our First Baby Gift

We got our first baby gifts today.   2 books, one is baby names from around the world, different then most baby name books this one is broke down by country.  The other book we received was a Korean/English dictionary.  I can't wait to learn some of the language.  

Well they are not really for the baby they are more for me and John, but I consider them our first baby gift.

Things are moving along

We have confirmation from our references that they have received their letters and have begun to work on them.  

We also got our education packet in the mail this weekend.  Our agency requires 30 credit hours of education before we can submit our paperwork to Korea.  This can be done online, via the CAS website and also by reading books on adoption.  We even get 2 credits for reading adult books and 1 credit per every 2 children books we read.  So it looks like that will be pretty easy to complete.  Korea does require 2 courses which we will be able to get through the CAS website.

We also have our first home study appointment with our social worker on Tuesday morning.  She will come to our house which works out great because actually seeing out house if one of the things the social worker must do before completing her portion of the home study.   The rest of the process lays with the different government agencies.  Hopefully our request will not end up on someones desk for a while before running the required checks on each of us.