Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Home Visit...Check!

We checked another big step off the list today.  Our social worker came to our house for the home visit.  It went really well, and a lot faster than I thought!  The home study meetings were a breeze compared to what I was expecting.  We will soon be an official homestudy approved family!  I am very excited to be finished with this part of the adoption process.  Now I just need to concentrate on finishing our required training, and getting some of the other paperwork for our dossier.  So exciting, but so busy and stressful at the same time!

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Moving On

We finally have our last form that we needed, to start the actual Home Study process.  We were waiting for our doctor to fill out our medical info.  He did it a few weeks ago, and my husband picked it up.  When he got home with it, I realized that the doctor did not fill it out correctly.  So we took the information that he wrote on it, and typed it up.  Hubby then brought it back to the doctor, explaining what needed to be fixed.  I called last week, to see if it was done....nope!  So yesterday I text the doctor to ask when he would have it finished, and he basically said, thanks for the reminder...but I got an email this morning, that he would have it for us today.  I picked it up, and it was finished and it was right!  So now I just have to print off our autobiographies, and financial information.  I have a doctor appointment on Tuesday with a doctor that is near the adoption agency's office.  So I am going to stop by there, to drop off our packet and maybe set up our first meeting with our social worker. 
On a side note, I asked at the doctors office today, about the other tests that we had run a few weeks ago.  I wanted to know when they were expected to be in...well they checked...and they were in.  Don't know when they came back, and why we didn't get a phone call to discuss the results, but the nurse is supposed to call tomorrow.  If she doesn't, I will call on Friday and make an appointment for next week.  I really want to know the results.  The tests were expensive and they will determine for sure whether we attempt IVF again with our eggs/sperm...or if we should move on to other routes.  I have been researching embryo adoption, and feel that would be an awesome choice for us, but we will have to wait and see what the results say.