Home Study Visit # 1

Well the social worker has just gone and we have survived the first home study session! She was very nice and I think we all got on well. She seems to think if all goes smoothly, that we should be approved by Christmas!!!

We pretty much went through all the basics again with her - what we had learnt on the prep course; the reasons why we had decided to adopt; the number and ages of the children we were looking etc.etc.

She wanted to look around the house (upstairs is a total tip!) and I don't think she was particularly impressed too see three of our four cats stretched out asleep on the spare bed. Her reaction was not really very positive!!

Anyway, she is going to be sending us some homework and we are going to have fortnightly visits from next week onwards (she reckons 6 to 8 visits should be enough), each lasting approx. 2 hours.

So positive - so far, so good.

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