Yesterday, we had our home study appointment. First off, I have to say that our social worker was wonderful. We felt great after he left. He was very laid back and knowledgable about international adoption. He and his wife have 2 children they adopted from eastern Europe so we felt much of the information he offered was useful rather than text book. Second, we ended up discarding the pre-homestudy to-do list. The house was clean but not any where near what I had envisioned. The social worker just did a very quick walk through so he never would have noticed whether or not I got around to scrubbing the tile grout in the bathroom (I didn’t get around to it by the way).

We enjoyed the meeting and felt good about things after the social worker left. He offered to hook us up with a group that was started by other parents who have adopted from Guatemala. I am looking forward to meeting other families who have beautiful children from Guatemala in our area. He said he would email us a copy of the home study to proof read by Thursday so we should have the notarized version in our hands the first week of May.