Home Study Here We Come

We have chosen America World Adoption Agency to do our local home study since MLJ is located in Indiana.  Our home study case worker comes highly recommended by several good friends and we look forward to meeting with her, hopefully this week. 

Last week I got the list of documents necessary to complete the home study and as I printed off all the papers and tried to organize them in my folder, I mumbled to myself "Don't get overwhelmed.  Don't get overwhelmed."  It was quite a bit of paperwork and leg work, but after breaking it down a bit, I'm revved up and ready to get crackin' on it all.

I took the 3 little Fish Sticks with me to the local sheriff's station for a county background check on Friday.  I had never been there before and neither had they - which can be a good thing, right?  :)  Little Guy was a bit obsessed with the high fence, curly barbed wire and the many officers we saw coming and going.  I promised him, after much persistence, that I would ask the next police officer I saw if Little Guy could see his hand cuffs and other "things" he uses to catch bad guys.  It was really sad, because the minute I said that, not a single person in uniform passed us by.  What a huge disappointment for him.  I think the next one I see in public, I will ask.  Maybe I should take the kids to Dunkin' Donuts.  Surely we'll find one there.  TEE HEE!

We hope to have our first of 4 meetings for our home study this week and in between time I'll be working on my to-do list.

My crazy mind keeps wandering on wild rabbit trails of all kinds of things:  what I could make and sell as a fund raiser, where I will get 2nd hand baby equipment once they join us, what we will name them, what will they look like, when will I make time to write my autobiography and can I keep it condensed without writing a book, how long will it take us, will we hit road blocks,.....

It boggles my mind to think that before the earth began, our Creator planned families by birth and by adoption and He knows right now what our future holds.  He planted this journey in our hearts and brought My Man and I together to see it to completion.  Good stuff....Good God!!