The Long-Awaited Home Study Report

I am so happy! Our home study report is now officially done! Not only is it done but it is pleasing in every way. All of the revisions we've painstakingly tried to get accomplished have been made to our liking. We've been working on getting this home study report done since March. March! So I can't tell you how satisfying it is to have this document in front of me, that I can now say represents us in a truthful and accurate way. What a great feeling!

I spoke to our social worker this morning to tell her that we are very pleased and to thank her for her work. She apologized for it taking so long. She said she was going to submit our report TODAY. (Insert my big smile here)

What I found out was that she had pulled out the original report (the one with all the mistakes submitted in August) when she learned we weren't happy with it but left our dossier with the adoption board. According to her, the adoption board has been requesting the home study report. I asked her how long she thought the approval would take and she said maybe two weeks to a month. So it's possible that they have already looked over our dossier and now with the completed report it may not be that much longer before we are on their list of approved adoptive parents! Did you hear that? Approved adoptive parents! :-)