Home study finished!

Yay! We had our last home study visit yesterday! I am so thankful that is all taken care of! What a blessing! Our social worker said she'd have it finished within 2 weeks. We are grateful she has been doing this for 20 + years, so she knows exactly what she's doing! She said she'd send us the draft for any corrections that need to be made, then send it to our agency. They'll send it to the USCIS! Now we're waiting on our fingerprinting appointment, then approval from USCIS to adopt, then the paperwork is off to Korea! Yay! We're getting closer!

The visit yesterday wasn't bad at all. I know everyone said it would be fine, but I guess I just wasn't sure until it happened! In the back of my head I kept thinking, "Ok she hasn't looked at the house at all yet, so this last visit she's gonna scrutinize everything!" Of course that's not what happened. We finished up with all the home study questions & then she took a very brief tour of the house! It wasn't what I'd worked myself up for.

One of the things we had to talk about was finances. I don't know why they need to see access to all that money up front! Hopefully what we've told them will be enough. We also added all of our fundraisers that we or others are planning on doing. Another thing our social worker suggested was to see if we knew anyone with frequent flyer miles that they may want to donate to us for our trip over to Korea. I hadn't thought of that. We don't know many people that travel either, but I figured it couldn't hurt to send out an email or letter & see what response we got. Well, today right after church a dear lady came up to me & asked when we were going to Korea to pick up our baby. I told her it would be a while probably towards the end of next year, & she said that she wanted to pay for our flights to get our baby! Wow! I was overcome! I hadn't even had a chance to even think about sending out the letter or email to our friends & family! God answered that prayer before I even had a chance to really even ask! Praise! He is so good to us! We don't deserve all of this, but He is continually blessing us & we KNOW that it is from Him & no one else! To God be ALL the glory!