First Home visit
We had a social worker come to our house yesterday.
Brent and I spent most of the past weekend cleaning, and our house was all sparkly and nice.
I wasn't very nervous, which is unusual for me - I'm a wreck when company comes over. But she asked for a tour and we showed her the whole house - all the smoke alarms, fire extinguishers, our lovely fire escape plan. She said the only things we needed was a child lock on our cleaning cupboard, and to make sure we stayed vigilant on the outlet covers (I had missed one). She complimented us on our nice home and said we seemed mindful of the needs of children, even though we don't have any yet. It took about 20 minutes - not bad at all.
She is coming for another visit when A is here, just to see how we're doing. She said that one will be about an hour and we'll just play and hang out. Again, nothing formal.
She also said that she usually deals with situations where children are taken away and being put into foster care, so it is nice for her to see a family who cares and really wants to bring a child in. :)
Brent and I spent most of the past weekend cleaning, and our house was all sparkly and nice.
I wasn't very nervous, which is unusual for me - I'm a wreck when company comes over. But she asked for a tour and we showed her the whole house - all the smoke alarms, fire extinguishers, our lovely fire escape plan. She said the only things we needed was a child lock on our cleaning cupboard, and to make sure we stayed vigilant on the outlet covers (I had missed one). She complimented us on our nice home and said we seemed mindful of the needs of children, even though we don't have any yet. It took about 20 minutes - not bad at all.
She is coming for another visit when A is here, just to see how we're doing. She said that one will be about an hour and we'll just play and hang out. Again, nothing formal.
She also said that she usually deals with situations where children are taken away and being put into foster care, so it is nice for her to see a family who cares and really wants to bring a child in. :)
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posted by Tracy at 7:07 AM
1 Comments:
Thanks for the note in GCM...I'll keep you in my prayers.
WOW! Your social worker certainly looked around more than ours! Ours came in, chatted with us about our histories, took some notes & left. Never took a tour, never looked for outlet covers (we had none at the time...still don't have most covered!)
For Russia, you SHOULD be having 4 post placement visits...that's the Russian law...6 months, 1 year, 2 years & 3 years.
Praying for all to go well for you. Check out my blog: http://kaliningrad-adoption.blogspot.com
I also created a Caring Bridge page when we got our referrals. It's at: http://www.caringbridge.org/mi/duncangabby/
Hope you look at both....
Blessings, Laurel
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