Tuesday, December 23, 2008

We have met our social worker and it went well. She is very knowledgeable and had lots of tips and information for us. We felt reassured that the process is finally underway, eventhough there is so much to do!
We have tons of meetings with her, as part of the home study, and homework to complete between each meeting! We are going to be pretty busy, but it is great to feel like God's plan for our lives is comming to pass. We still have lots of uncertainty and details to sort out, but we are stepping out in faith, not really knowing where God is leading us, but following anyway!

We have given an outline of the process in the list on the right, but just to fill you in, once the homestudy (all the interviews) are complete, our social worker puts all the inforation together on one form, whcih is edited lots of times, by us and other social workers. It is then sent to panel, which is where we meet a board of people made up of social workers, parents, adopted adults and medical professionals, who look over our form, talk to us and then we leave the room while they decide what recommendation to make. Can we adopt or not? How many children? From where? What age? The we return to hear their verdict! Their recomendation is passed on to the Decision maker, who gets back to us with a week, to let us know if we are approved. If they say yes, we can then collect together all the papers, and complete the legal side to send to the Sending Country. Then we wait to be matched, which can take a very long time!

The date for Panel is a big day! It seems a long way off yet, but it is nice to have a date!
We hope you have a great Christmas. Love

Tuesday, December 09, 2008

Well, both medicals are over! Nothing too embarrassing thankfully, but glad to be done. We made it into a very friendly competition between us, and I wont say who won what, but we both came out fine! They will be sent off to our agency's doctor to be checked, then added to the pile of things completed. We hope not to hear about them again, all being well.
We are now trying to get floor laid and painting done in our house, ready for our home visit in a couple of weeks.
Please continue to pray that

  • we would feel at ease and be able to talk openly to our social worker when we meet. She is very experienced and an adopter herself, so we are sure she will be very understanding. It is more our own nerves we are worried about!
  • Also pray that we are not too tired! We are meeting her the first Monday after we break up, normally the day to collapse and get the flu!

Thanks for your ongoing support (and kind comments AM!)


Monday, December 01, 2008

One medical down, one to go!! Then on to our appointment to meet our social worker on December the 22nd. Although not an official visit, she is coming to our home to chat through our reasons and choices regarding adoption. We must say, it feels official! But we know that God is in this with us, and our prayer is that she understands our faith and we have the right words to say without getting too emotional!

Also you will now notice a link at the bottom of each post we write which says 'comments'. You can click on this and write us a little note! It would be great to hear from those who are reading this, so feel free to write to us there.

God Bless,