We started our home study today! Yay! It has been slow until now, but I have a feeling things will begin to pick up a bit. So our home study started at 9:30 this morning. We got Brooks off to school and I got back just in time to get Moses up and ready for a perfect meeting with our caseworker (I guess that is her title). 9:35…9:45…10:00…10:10…no word, no one… So, Drew calls Bethany and says, “We were suppose to meet this morning at 9:30, right?” Our caseworker says, “Yes, but that is okay. Things happen. I understand.” Drew is thinking, what? He says, “Did you have trouble finding our house?” She said, “No, it is suppose to be here at Bethany.” Needless to say we were late, but we did get there and begin our interviews this morning for our home study. It was really neat to hear Drew answer some of the questions about me and to think about when we met and got engaged. I think my favorite response was when he said that he really appreciates what I do with the boys and how I let them be boys. He confirmed that he thinks I am doing a good job. I was fighting back tears. I think no one noticed. Thank goodness Moses was there for me to focus on. He did great, by the way. Much easier to just have Moses at those meetings than both boys together! So, when we finally got around to it, the home study got off to a great start! We still don’t have a grasp on the time frame, but were encouraged that once the home study starts things should start rolling. Really excited as we are truly leaning toward two children now! We will have to wait and see what God has in store for us. We will be blessed even if it is just one! Praying for him/them all the time. Even Brooks in his sweet prayers remembers his new “black” baby brother. As a matter of funny, he just said at the dinner table last night, “I wish my big black brother could be here.” At least he’s accepting it! We may have to work a little on his differentiations. 
Who knows maybe he knows something we don’t.
Adoption Lesson #1: “Home Study” does not neccessarily mean in your home.
October 13, 2009 by outofsouthafrica
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Hey Brooke! Courtney told me that ya’ll were adopting and I stalked your blog. That’s awesome, congratulations! Andrew and I just filled out our pre-application application for Rwanda a week ago so we are just getting started….
I hope ya’ll have speedy progress!!
Sorry, I just figured out how to review comments on this blog site. Blogger is a little bit more user friendly. That is awesome! Did you know Jason and Carrie Hayes are adopting from Rwanda too? Congratulations! Don’t get too bogged down when you get the formal application. It is a lot of work, and it takes a little extra time, but you will finish! We will be praying for you guys. Keep us updated! Especially if you guys start a blog about it!
Hey Brooke,
I am about to explode. I do not recommend applying to adopt in the middle of moving cross-country but we didn’t really plan on this happening. Our address is changing twice and all of our jobs/insurance/etc. are changing too if you can imagine how fun that is. Oh well! I knew Jason and Carrie were talking about it, that’s awesome!
I started a blog about it at http://www.wewannarwandan.blogspot.com if you want to check it out. Can’t wait to see how everything works out! We did our home study in Andrew’s apartment in Seattle that had a couch and a bed and that is about it…hopefully they won’t judge us on that!