Home Study

We have completed the Home Study paperwork. Here is a list of the paperwork that I can think of off the top of my head: Birth certificates on all of us, marriage license, eight letters of rec, criminal checks locally, state, and FBI, doctors visits and papers done on all 6 of us, proof of employment records, financial records, 6 online classes totaling 10 hours, workbook on adoption taking 12 hours, Dennis and I each had a 51 page profile to fill out, proof of life, auto and health insurance, proof that our health insurance will include adoption, and last but not least, a letter from the vet saying our pets our healthy and nice (I am sure I forget some, but that is the quick run down).

So next step is that tomorrow a very nice lady named Jody will come hang out at our house. I am thankful the day is here. No more cleaning and fussing, just getting it done. I know that it is not a white glove test sort of interview and thankfully. Besides kids should not be raised in a house where gloves can stay white. What kind of mom would I be if I obsessed all day about dusting instead of about living. But, we do want to have a nice house for guests, so I have done my share of cleaning this weekend. One reason for the visit is to show that we have all the necessary safety precautions, smoke alarms, fire extinguisher, gun safe, and oh, yes a posted evacuation route. (Which nice Jody told me to post right before she gets there and take it down when she walks out the door). She will also interview us individually and as a couple and then "be a fly on the wall." I am sure many of you are smiling right now and would love to be the fly on the wall with her. It will be great....it's life with 6 people in the house.

It is exciting to see the process through, and it will be even more exciting when all this craziness leads to the phone call that we have been matched with the daughter that God knows about right now. The one He has chosen for our family, the one that was known before the creation of the world to be a Dunlea. We regularly pray for her, her family and her situation not knowing if she is born or in the womb or, possibly, not even conceived. We don't know, but God does and He hears our prayers.