Home Study part 2

This morning we had the pleasure of meeting with our social worker Amy for part 2 of the home study. The majority of the meeting was to discuss some of the questions we may have had from last week. We also had an opportunity to discuss our photo album and financial questions we had plus any concerns. Amy was so gracious to discuss and willing to lead us in the right direction. I love that she is always available for us and even lives right down the road if we need her. What a blessing.

We spent quite awhile discussing our options and she through some "what if's" into the equation that we had not that about before. I had never thought of a potential birth mother who may have to take a medication during her pregnancy. Since we are adopting it is going to be hard to place stipulations on the birth mother regarding medications. Sometimes these medications, for example for a mental disorder such as depression, must be taken during pregnancy. I have been thinking on this and the only thing that came to my mind was God is in control. We have really left this whole thing in God's hands. Why start now placing stipulations on the birth mother? Since the beginning we said this was in God's hands. This is where I am right now in regards to the medication. Of course, in the end we have the right to say no to a birth mom if she has a diagnosis we are not comfortable dealing with. God will lead us in that. We just have to leave it in control of Him.

We also discussed our families again. Jonathan showed Amy a sample of our photo album. We just wanted to make sure we were on the right path on how to assemble the album. She loved it and loved how creative Jonathan was with the theme. He took a clip art pacifier and turned 4 of them different colors. Pink, Blue, Purple and Green. Then arranged them on a page then placed pictures around those pacifiers. I would say we are about half way through with the album. Well, really Jonathan. :) He head up that project in the end. He is very good with Microsoft Publisher.

After that we gave her a tour of our house. She said we were "very creative" people. She loved all of the art in the house and all of Jonathan's photo's we have in the living room. After giving her the back ground on all of the art and pictures in the house it started to feel like we were in an art gallery and we were the curators. It kind of made me laugh because at one time Jonathan was telling Amy about his photo collection of "people who work with their hands". I never realized how many pictures we have of people's hands around our house. I need to be more observant. Sorry honey I never realized that before or maybe I forgot? I plead the fifth? We showed Amy the nursery. She absolutely loved the furniture we chose out. She said it was perfect and could not wait for us to have a baby. For those of you who have been to our house and have seen our guest bathroom, it has blue walls and a silver disco-esk shower curtain, Amy loved the bathroom. That is so funny to say that because I think it is one of my favorite rooms of our house too. I was just thinking that the other day. When we came to look at this house it was the first thing I saw that I loved. It reminds me of a artsy bar for some reason. She loved Shane Kislack's "Window into New York" that we have hanging in there. It is literally a picture Shane took placed into a old window sill. He gave it to us for a house warming gift. It is funny because we had so many stories to share with Amy about our art. It was so cool that she let us share them with her.

After that it was over. No more questions, no more looking around. I did send Amy home with 5 red velvet Valentines cupcakes. Not trying to butter her up, but I did want her to know about our fundraiser Cupcakes for Our Cupcake. She loved it and was so glad that we made something for her and her family. We are so glad that the home study is behind us. I think for now we want to just relax and wait for what is next. No more worrying. Just relax and let it be. Like Bob Marley said "Don't worry about a thing, cuz every little thing is going to be alright!"

Love to you all!