I haven't posted for a while; the longest time since my blog first went up. It has been rather quiet at this end. I have been crazy busy with school, as well!
Our second home study went well. That was 8 days ago. We met with the social worker and we both had a separate hour to run through our life history - from birth until we met! When we met at her house she said, "I'll take Chatty first." (this is me looking over my shoulder to see who she might mean. *grin*)
So I went for my hour of chit chat and Ray went to sleep in the van. I did my best to keep my answers as short as possible, and we finished on the dot of 1 hour. Then we drove downtown to Denny's Restaurant and Ray and our SW went into the restaurant, and I sat in the van and read a book. One hour of peace and quiet; I got through 1/3 of a book!!
The funny thing is Ray took *over* an hour to answer his questions! *laugh* See, since I wasn't there he *had* to talk!! *grin*
Our next and final meeting with our SW is on Sunday, at our house. I hate to think what the cost will be. We have to pay for her time and given she lives 2 hours away, I think we are talking about an 8 hour day, plus an additional $200 for travel. It is a shame they don't have a closer SW to us!
She will come in the morning to meet and interview the kids and do a house tour. She has to interview any child over the age of seven. All the children have varying feelings about this meeting, ranging from nervous, to excited, to 'what a pain!' LOL!
After her time with the children, she has kindly offered to go for lunch, while I feed the kids and then put the littlest to bed, and send the other four or five off to play at friends' houses. She will then return and we will have the last of our six meetings. Here is where we will discuss parenting. Should be interesting. I always think that adoptive parents that have no biological children have it so much easier than those of us with children already. I have heard stories of some of the antics that little ones get up to while the social worker was visitings: slapping mommy across the face!, having temper tantrums, pouring out a jug of milk on the floor, etc. Should be interesting. I mean you will do what you normally do, but you will feel like you are under a microscope! Our littlest ones especially, *love* visitors and will probably be all over her! :o/ Tonight I found out that Cooper thinks the SW is bringing the girls on Sunday. Ooops! Going have to deal with that one!
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hi there, i could relate to your post about 'social worker coming', esp since we just encourage our kids to talk openly about their lives... but now it is being written down... hmmm...You are right, the homestudy went along so much easier when there were NO children in the home. We handled all those imaginary situations perfectly!! Of course just be yourself and Sunday will go great, sk
Of course, it took Ray over an hour--not because he had so much to say, but rather, he talks soooo much more slowly than you do! *wink*
JacJac thought the same thing about the social worker...but I didn't know anything about it until she asked him, 'Why do you think I'm here?'
With a completely straight face he told her, 'You're going to bring me my baby sister!'
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