Today was our home visit with our social worker, Becky. We are both relieved to have the process over with, and boy what a process it was. Becky arrived shortly after 10 this morning, toured our home just to get a feel for the layout. Apparently she has to describe the house in our homestudy report for Korea, so this was an opportunity for her to get a lay of the land. That whole process took no more than 15 minutes. She also offered the occasional suggestion for child-proofing, which we took into consideration although we will be moving most likely this summer.
After the tour, we got comfortable in the living room for what evolved into a rather lengthy chat. She asked extension questions based on our 15 page autobiographies and we essentially had a fireside chat/counseling session for the next several hours. The majority of the discussion revolved around our relationships with our parents and siblings; we are very candid about these relationships so it was a rather fluid discussion. We suspect at times that we were being closely observed throughout the conversation to see how we related to each other as well. Although some of the information presented was not always the most glowing declaration of family love, I think we passed the "test". Becky was very easygoing and when the homestudy concluded at 3 p.m. (that's right...5 hours later), she felt that she knew us much better. I asked her if she now thought that we were completely crazy to which she laughed and said "quite the contrary...you sound perfectly normal." Well that is good to know. You see, everyone has nutty families!
The next step is for her to write the homestudy report and send us a rough draft. That should take place this next week. Then she will send the report to the head of WACAP for approval. Upon approval, we will be officially placed in the Korea program and on the waiting list. Becky says that if all goes accordingly, we should be on the list by the end of March. Super exciting.
After the tour, we got comfortable in the living room for what evolved into a rather lengthy chat. She asked extension questions based on our 15 page autobiographies and we essentially had a fireside chat/counseling session for the next several hours. The majority of the discussion revolved around our relationships with our parents and siblings; we are very candid about these relationships so it was a rather fluid discussion. We suspect at times that we were being closely observed throughout the conversation to see how we related to each other as well. Although some of the information presented was not always the most glowing declaration of family love, I think we passed the "test". Becky was very easygoing and when the homestudy concluded at 3 p.m. (that's right...5 hours later), she felt that she knew us much better. I asked her if she now thought that we were completely crazy to which she laughed and said "quite the contrary...you sound perfectly normal." Well that is good to know. You see, everyone has nutty families!
The next step is for her to write the homestudy report and send us a rough draft. That should take place this next week. Then she will send the report to the head of WACAP for approval. Upon approval, we will be officially placed in the Korea program and on the waiting list. Becky says that if all goes accordingly, we should be on the list by the end of March. Super exciting.
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