#aistfamilylife

Celebratory "Home Visit is Done" Burgers!

The Good Place. A wonderfully, hilarious show to binge watch when your body has shut down after a very full week & now knows that your nine month cancer check up appointment & Adoption Home Visit are DONE!!!!!!!!

So that is exactly what the hubs & I did...all weekend. We do not regret it.

Last week was a huge one for checking off major things. We finished all of our adoption training hours ending with a CPR/First Aid training class. I am still cancer free (PRAISE THE LORD!) & the home visit went well. 

A home visit is a requirement from the state, where a case worker comes into your home, asks two and a half to three hours worth of questions & glances around to make sure you complied with the list of home safety requirements they had sent you earlier. They put all of their findings into a report that takes about four to six weeks to be approved by the state when then, FINALLY, you are "approved" to be able to adopt. 

Our case worker was kind & made such a nerve wracking experience as easy as possible. Unless you happened to have already had one of these, who really knows what you are supposed to do to prepare for a home visit? I went the route as if we were going to be showing our house to sell, so you better believe that our house was spotless, the candles smelled like cookies & at the last minute, I asked Jason to get cookie dough so we could offer real cookies when the case worker came...& she had three. 

So now we wait 4-6 weeks. Hopefully by the end of July birth moms will be able to see our information & decide if we are the best family for their child. In the meantime, we will be working on a Profile Book, Website & Video that birth moms will be seeing. (The links are examples of other people's.) 

ALSO...the Lord provided a videographer to help us with our video!!! Through connections, we were introduced to a guy who is so graciously helping us with our video! He is a videographer for Round Rock ISD, as well as has his own wedding video business, Randy Robinson Films. We met with him after our home visit, & it was so refreshing to meet with someone who wanted to hear our story. Who asked questions not because it was his job to get answers & then write a report about us, but because he genuinely cared & wants to help us. Saying we are so thankful is quite the understatement. 

For our wedding we used #aistwedding as our catchy hashtag. It switched to #aistmarriedlife once we got married. A kind friend mentioned on social media the other day how excited she was for #aistfamilylife. After last week, we seem so many steps closer to that family life with our little cakepop!