LAST HOME STUDY VISIT!!!!!

WE had our last home study with Bekah today!!!!!  I cannot tell you how exciting it was to actually check something off of our massive list.  Bekah is still waiting for a couple of references and our FBI fingerprints to come back and then she will finish writing up our complete home study. After the extensive previous meetings with Bekah, we were honestly wondering how in the world she could come up with three hours of things to talk about....well, let's just say she didn't disappoint! We were able to come up with three and a HALF hours worth of things to pick apart. 

Paul and I started this morning at 6:30 am to get the four kiddos dressed and out of the house.  We dropped the girls off with Grammy and took the boys to school before we hit the interstate toward Peachtree City.  Paul and I were chatting it up hard core and I was letting him listen to a few of my new favorite songs when we topped a hill and there he was! Yep, a Grantville policeman with his radar gun shooting right at us! He immediately put his gun down and pulled right out.  My heart sunk! I started straight into, "how fast were you going?" "Not that fast," he says.  I turned the music off and prepared for the officer to pull us over when he flew past us and got the car in front of us.....wheeeewwww!!!!! Anticlimactic for you guys maybe but I was sooooo relieved :) 


The meeting today began with Paul and I turning in the last few pieces of paperwork and going down our checklist to make sure neither of us had missed anything.  The questioning steered clear of marital questions and went directly to parenting questions. I think I preferred the marriage questions :)  There's nothing like reflecting on your strengths and weaknesses as a parent to make you feel great.  Praise the Lord that his mercies are new every morning! 


We had to give a description of each of our kids. It was fun getting to describe their very  different temperaments.   It began with, well Cason is our type A, analytical child.  He has a tender heart and ALWAYS wants to know why.  Braden is just happy to be alive! He is very touchy feely and loving.  EllaKate would like to be a princess living in a castle when she grows up....wow! She is very emotional but loves so big! Chloe...well, Chloe may look like a porcelain doll but she is our bulldozer! I adore all four of our children and cannot wait to meet the new addition that the Lord will bring into our lives.  


Once Bekah finishes writing up our study, it is sent to immigration. This can take a month or it can take three months.  We are really praying that it will go quickly and that we can move on to the next part of our adoption journey which will be the dossier preparation and then the referral process. Continue to pray for this process and for all the Ugandan adoptions (as there are a lot of changes going on presently).