Autobiography

We both completed our 9 page autobiographies.  Those will be turned in this week.  I wonder if the case worker really reads them because if they do, why does the Home Study interview take 6 to 8 hours?  Dave had lots of sarcastic answers to the questions (shocker), and I told him to actually answer that way to see if they respond.  He didn’t.  He went all adult and responsible.

The Home Study interview is scheduled for next week.  Dana will interview us together then each of us on our own.  I’m now wondering, since she is going to be here 6 to 8 hours, am I supposed to feed her?

Next weekend is Christmas so I’m going to skip the blog post (won’t have anything new to report until the Home Study anyway).  Everyone have a blessed Christmas, safe travels, and a great time with your families.

More Questions

It’s been an interesting week.  First, we got this email saying, “CONGRATULATIONS!! It is my delight to inform you that you have completed all of the preparatory steps required by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services in order to become licensed for foster care and adoption. You are now ready to have your home study done.” Along with that we got our case worker assigned and we have yet another questionnaire to complete.  This one is 9 pages long and drills down into our youth, our current life, and our future…I feel like I am going to see a therapist!  Here is a random sampling of questions:

*Give three words that describe you and your personality.

*What did you like best about your father?

*Did you have household chores or were you expected to work as a child/adolescent?

*Who was present at your wedding?

*What are your fears in fostering and/or adopting?

*What Independent School District are you in?

*What are your neighbors’ feelings about you fostering/adopting?

And just in time for a case worker to finally come to the house, coyotes attached and massacred a deer on our street this week.  The city came and picked up what was left of it but the street is covered in blood, stretching down the length of 3 houses.  It rained all day yesterday so I’m hoping that washed most of it away.  I think the case worker would have to invent a new section on her paperwork for ‘blood all over the street’.

We both have to complete the new questionnaire and get it turned into our case worker, Dana.  Then she will call and schedule a time to come interview us.  Since it’s just the two of us, this will only take 8 hours.  Yep!  ONLY 8 hours.  If we had kids living in the house, it would be closer to 14 hours, or so they tell me.  After the interview, she will transcribe her notes into our Home Study. She has 3 weeks to do this. Then John and 2 other people at Arrow will review it and send back edits. They have one week to do that. Then she has one week to make any changes.  So basically what I’m saying is that once the home study interview is scheduled, it’ll still be probably another month before we get licensed.  Which works out perfectly because we wanted to wait until February to have kids.

 

 

Crack the Safe

We had the gun safe delivered today.  That thing is big and HEAVY.  The man who delivered it had a dolly that moved on propulsion…genius.  I wish I could rent one to move big stuff around (or out of) the house.  The safe was the last thing we were waiting for.  I will call John, the adoption agency worker, this week and see what we have to do to get the home study scheduled.  We are at the last part!!!

In the mean time, I am going to start learning how to break into the safe.  I see it in movies…all you have to do it put your ear to the door and slowly turn the dial, right?  I guess you’ll hear clicks, or singing, or the patron saint of thieves telling you that you are on the right track.  I’ll let you know when I figure it out.