Home Study

Home Study... WOW.. what an experience

First of all after we decided on using All Blessings (ABI) they send us a few emails to fill out and fax or mail them back.. NO big deal a few pages about 10 questions.. I thought wow this is a piece of cake. Little did I know the best was yet to come. One of the ladies from ABI sent me an email and said we had been accepted and we would get started with the home study and they would send me a packet in the mail, I should read and fill out paperwork and mail back. I asked why not email (I don’t loose stuff when its email LOL) she said well its a little to much to email. I knew I was in for it then.

A few days later the package arrived in the mail, about the size of a 5 star notebook, typed, front and back about size 10 font. We had to read it and fill out the paperwork and send in as much as possible. I had to send stuff off for background checks, State Police, Federal Police, FBI.. you name it we got it. We had to take the dog to the Vet, have him checked and a paper signed by the vet, we had to get 4 people to fill out a page about me and Jonathan, about our parenting skills. IT was CRAZY..  I know you have to do this because of crazy people out there but WOW.

After we got the paperwork done we had to go to Owensboro, Ky., and have our first Home study meeting, it lasted about 3 hours and the lady was very nice. She then gave us another book a little thicker than the first that was mailed to us to read (front and back size 10 font). I don’t think I read this much in school. We were send home with a list of things that had to be done to the house. Child locks on cabinets containing cleaning supplies, meds locked up, fire extinguishers (up stairs and down), carbon monoxide detectors (up stairs and down), and of course we had to clean, clean, clean. She said that was not part of it, but I didn’t want someone to come into the house and check out every nook and cranny with out it being spotless. So we worked and worked on the house and getting all ready for her to come do the “HOME” part. She was there four like 4 hours, talked to Caleb alone, Jonathan alone and me alone, then went through the house. Then she said “Well all looks good”... woo hoo. The home study now is ready to be typed out and ready for approval... woo hoo.  

Now we have to complete a 10 hour on line course.. WOOO and more paper work...(I don’t think that will ever end) and we have to have some blood work done and a physical, fingerprinting and who knows whats next....

I’ll keep you all posted on the next step we make and fill you in on our next Haiti adventures.

Michelle.