Gosh, I really thought it would be more complicated than that. Wednesday, we had our in home visit for the completion of our Home Study process. In my head I was thinking she was really going to be searching through our house for a reason why we could not adopt our little girl. But in reality, she really walked through and compliment us on how beautiful our house was and how clean it was (hahahaha). Here is a little back ground on how clean it really was...
Every cabinet and closet in the entire house was emptied cleaned and put back. I threw away so much junk that I didn't even know we had that our garbage can was to full on Monday. I cleaned out under every one's beds and moved every piece of furniture to vacuum or steam mop. Every picture frame was dusted and as straight as possible. I cleaned the front door, the sliding glass door, and every other door in the house. I cleaned and vacuumed (yes, vacuumed) the garage! All for her to be here less than 40 min and most of the time just sat on the couch talking about Victorville, hospitals, doctors offices, and what kind of recreational activities we had here. Seriously? I was so so stressed, so wigged out that someone was coming to make sure I did a good enough job cleaning and keeping house that forgot what she was really doing here. She was coming to make sure we had a safe home for another child to come into. Why did I get so worked up?
Well, at least now I feel like I have set the reset button on the house. It feels clean, super clean, actually and I really like that.
So now, as it stands, we have a massive list of things to get done before Christmas. My finger prints came back "bad quality". So I need to get them redone. Ricky still needs to get his done. We need to file our I600A forms with Immigration to be approved to bring a non US citizen into the country (adding another set of finger prints in there too). Then we have a list of about 30 things that need to be written and notarized. We are so blessed to have wonderful friends who have offered to help us get all this done. People who are helping get the notary services for free, who are helping get our letters of clearance from the Police Department, helping us draw up our living wills, etc. The overwhelming offer of support and assistance to bring our Baby Grace home has been such a blessing and you can bet we will take each of you up on your offer!
On a side note- We got our coffee yesterday, Fair Trade Ethiopian Coffee, and I had some this morning! Let me just say, WOW!!! I LOVE IT!!! Here is the link if you are interested =) Thanks for the support that so many of you have offered financially as we make this leap of faith!
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