And still waiting. . .

Well, we heard from our social worker at the agency today and she has finished writing our homestudy. But, we STILL have not gotten back darling hubby's background check!!!! The agency was checking into this weeks ago and told us it was done, but they still don't have the results in the mail. Good grief! We submitted the fingerprints at the beginning of the year - first set in January and again in February. This is just ridiculous!!

Unfortunately, the agency can't technically approve us and put us on the waitlist until the background check is in hand because the info has to be written into the homestudy. Whatever. So, we continue to wait.

In other news, we got the rest of the interior of our house painted. It came out really pretty and I was pleased with the color selections we made. The nursery is epecially cute - the color is Recycled Glass by Sherwin-Williams. It goes well with the nursery decorations I've picked out so far. We also got our concrete pathway installed on the side of the house. The price for the job was great, but they pretty much wrecked all of our weed barrier in the area around the path. So, all of that needs to be redone and then we have to move the river rock back into those spots. Hurray for manual labor!

I'm looking forward to having our house "done." All that's left (for this year) is to get the concrete landscape borders done in the front and then I need to make the curtains for our family room. That should keep me out of trouble for a week, at least!

And I'm starting to get the urge to buy baby stuff. It's such an odd impulse - the compulsive planner in me wants to get everything ready as soon as possible, but another part of me wants to put it off as long as reasonable possible. Maybe that's why I'm coming up with all this stuff to do around the house. Hmmmmm. . .

That's all for now, folks. Oh, and I can't forget a shout-out to my (sorta) niece Megan who is turning 7 tomorrow!!

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Still waiting. But that's OK. . .

No news yet on the homestudy approval. We finished up the last of the interviews in May and all went smoothly. Hubby's background check FINALLY came back, but my Mom's is missing in action. Now they'll just have to do the old-fashioned name check because we've already sent in fingerprints for my Mom twice. Hopefully, this won't drag out the process. Honestly - a more than four month turnaround for a background check?? Ridonkulous!

I actually did buy some baby stuff the other day. We are going with the Carter's Forest Friends theme for the nursery. We thought it was really cute and had the added bonus of being gender-neutral. I really hadn't planned on buying any of this type of thing before the homestudy was done. But, we are getting the entire house (interior) painted this week and I wanted to make sure I picked a matching color for the nursery. So, I bought the crib set, valances, a lamp, and some wall decals. The first $300 of many thousands I am sure I will spend on gear once I have that homestudy approval in my hot little hands!

I also finished our adoption profile book - and I'm quite happy with the result. I bought 1 copy of the version I had completed so that I could see what the actual product looked like. I am glad I did this - while it was beautiful, I definitely found a few things to improve on text layouts for easier reading and better flow of the background colors on the pages. I am probably going way overboard on this silly book, but it keeps me busy and is the only thing the birthparents may see to make a decision about entrusting us with their child. Now I need to order 10 more copies for distribution to the agency and our attorney. Luckily, they are on sale 20% off!

I've decided to expand this little blog somewhat to start incorporating some helpful stuff for other adoptive parents. We've noticed more traffic on the Nest/Bump Adoption page and I'd like to help out other folks looking for information if they happen across my little corner of the web.