Our homestudy was yesterday. What a milestone! You could compare it to the first trimester of a pregnancy, maybe. For three months we've been secretly knowing of our situation, afraid to tell others because if something went wrong with the application or homestudy...for example, our income wasn't what they wanted, our home didn't meet their standards, they thought we and our families were too crazy! Our first meeting was pushed back from March 5th to the 7th because our social worker was sick (ya, that's right...the social worker has a social worker...it's a first for me! :)). Then our in-home homestudy was changed from the 12th to the 14th because Chris was sooooo sick. Fever, earache, sore throat, cough, the works. He thought he was dying, I just thought if he was he should do it more quietly. This was probably a blessing in disguise though. As many of you know, there is always a project in our house...and there are always 5 unfinished projects. Now, I'm not blaming Chris for all of this, oh no! It's also Luke's fault too because he moved to Columbia for an internship in Jeff City with our State Rep...so selfish! We had an unfinished bathroom, no smoke detectors, no bedframe, our upstairs/attic was in complete disarray, the hallway needed touch up paint (finding the paint was a disaster!!!), on and on and on. With the help of the two most handsome and handy guys I know it was all completed by 9:30am and our SW showed up at 9:40am! If Luke hadn't come home and Chris wouldn't have been sick (he worked a little during the near-death illness) our SW may have walked into mayhem. The homestudy went great and she only gave our home a quick once over glance(what?!?!) and it was in it's best shape to date! Oh well, the milestone is achieved and now we will wait roughly three weeks for the homestudy to be approved in the states and by the team in Korea. After that, we wait for a referral of a child. He will be 6 months old when we get the referral, so chances are, we have a living, breathing, beautiful baby just recently born in Korea! So you could say, we're parents! But, we'll wait to have that celebration.
A few other things:
Chris landed in China this morning (they are 13 hours ahead of us in the central US)...the first thing he said in his text to me was "We just landed, when we go to Korea, we are flying first class." I'm so glad he went on this trip...aside from the intent of the trip, it's great that he knows what we need before it happens!
I ordered our announcement cards today. I nearly had a breakdown beacuse I couldn't find a website to print double-sided flat announcements. Then my awesome cousin saved me! She's kind of like wonder woman. :)
I told my sister today :) It was great. I told her I was going to print some pictures and wanted to know what she thought of them. I handed her my phone with the announcement on it...it took her a moment but then she nearly flipped out with joy. I thought it was good timing because she's had a rough week and I love her too much to let her have a totally bad week. Tomorrow, I tell my grandparents (who I secretly refer to as G and have since the 9th grade, but I don't think they know it! <snicker, snicker>).
Thanks for the support!
Chris and Connie
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