A Big Day!

We all know that every day is precious, filled with God's plans and purposes for that day; but some days just seem like bigger days that others.  Today was a Big Day!  We finally were able to have Twila in our home this afternoon for our homestudy home visit.

This felt like a big hurdle we were finally able to get over and really the thing we were waiting for to set the adoption process in motion in a far greater way.  Up until now it has basically been collecting documents, notarizing documents, certifying documents, paying fees, and doing some learning through reading and online parent training classes.  Now certainly all those things are important and a big part of the process, but the home study is like the official now you are "approved" to adopt and get your information over to Haiti.

We were both nervous and excited leading up to today's home visit, and are so thankful for the social worker that has been assigned to us (Twila).  She has a wealth of experience, fits well with our personalities, understands our faith and values, and is going to work hard for us to help do what she can in her part of the adoption journey we are on!

The next step is that over the course of the next week or so she will be taking all of the written information we provided for her as well as the insights she gleaned from her time in our home with us today and put together the home study report that will accompany our dossier to Haiti.  We will also head down to Helena on Wednesday next week for follow up individual meetings with her.  As soon as the home study report is done, CCAI (our adoption agency) will review everything for correctness and to make sure it we are not missing anything.  Then they will legalize everything with the US and translate everything in to French and get it sent off to Haiti.