Paperwork

Our paper work fun starts. On Friday we had our first of 4 home study appointments with our social worker. He is a funny guy and he made us feel at ease. We decided to drive 1.5 hours west to a social worker that came highly recommended. He was very helpful and on our first meeting covered all areas of adoption including CAS, private/domestic adoption and international. After we went over all the information we confirmed that international adoption is the direction we wished to follow. He gave us some great information and some honest feedback on what to expect along the journey to our little girl or boy. We talked about children that are raised and cared for in an orphanage environment. We spoke of trans-racial and trans-cultural families. We spoke of honouring our childs culture and how we would go about doing so. It was a lot to take in and we left with lots of reading material and a plan to start searching our community for the resources we may need after our child comes home. We also are beginning to learn more about the culture and country of VN and all my extra time right now goes to researching on the internet it seems.
Our next homestudy is at our house, I guess I'd better get cleaning. He will meet Keaton and Chloe and see how we live. Should be interesting :)