It feels a lot like...

It feels a lot like our final home study visit!

Tonight we have a foster care worker coming over to our house to do an orientation with us. They want to get us going on paperwork right away, so instead of making us wait for the next group orientation at the office, she was willing to come out to our house. It feels a lot like the day we were having our adoption social worker over to our house for our final home study visit. Only this time we didn't buy cookies to pretend like I made them, and we didn't buy flowers, just to make it look like we always have fresh flowers on the table. We also didn't clean the whole house from top to bottom. That will be done before our big visit to get our license.

I am excited to hear how the kids are doing too. The last time I talked to the kids social worker was over a week ago. They had been moved into a new home, and I have not called her since. She said she would call me with any big changes, or news. I could call her, to check on the kids everyday, but I have been trying to refrain myself. I don't want to bug her, or look crazy. It's hard because I know things can change from day to day. I was the same way when we were waiting for Alex to be born. I wanted to talk to his birth mom or our social worker every day. I always needed to be reassured that things were on track.

For now we just have a lot of waiting ahead of us. Just like with adoption. After our visit tonight, we will have paperwork to do, a medical check, and finger prints. Next month we will get all of our training classes done in 1 week, and then we will just wait for all the paperwork to be handed in to the state. I have pretty high hopes that we can have the kids with us by Easter. I also hope to start making visits with them soon.