Home Study #1 Success

NOTE: This post was supposed to be published January 23rd. I just realized that I scheduled it to post January 23, 2014! HA! So from now on, pretend this posted 3 weeks ago!

Monday was our first home study meeting. I'll start off by saying, it was a huge success.

Now, back up to Thursday. We got the email asking if we could do the home study visit on Monday at 10:30. We agreed, knowing that we would be out of the house from Friday morning until Sunday at 1:00 P.M. We were working with our youth during the D-NOW weekend. It was totally amazing and we even had 2 girls in our group profess faith for the first time. I was paired up with this young woman named Jules. She is a sophomore at Samford University in Birmingham. She was the bible study leader for the weekend, and I was the chaperone. It was very fun. God knew what he was doing when he paired us.

(The best DNOW group ever! Love the 8th grade girls! P.S. Jules is the one at the top of the stairs.)

Jules has 2 adopted sisters, so she has been through this process before. She volunteered to come over and help us clean for a few hours after DNOW was over. I hesitated at first, but then decided to take her up on the offer. She said it was her way of helping our adoption. It was the most selfless thing I've ever had done for me by a complete stranger. Jules had known me for 2 days before she came and dusted my entire living room.

I'm also extremely grateful for all the people that volunteered to come help. Thank you.

Sunday night, Future Dad and I went to Lowes to buy cabinet locks, a carbon monoxide detector, outlet covers for 2 of our outlets and more cleaning supplies. When we got home, I tried to install the cabinet locks and failed. Had to get Future Dad to teach me how to drill pilot holes to screw the latches on.

Monday, I got up and ran with a co-worker, then took Keller to the vet for her yearly rabies shot. I got home just in time for a shower before our caseworker and her intern showed up.

(FYI: I opted for dark skinny jeans, a long sleeved red t-shirt, a cream puffy vest and my brown leather boots.)

The actual conversation went well. She asked lots of questions about our marriage and family, then walked around and took a look at our house. She asked us where our fire hydrant was. Luckily we bought one several weeks earlier off WOOT!

In the end, everything went well. Future Dad was excited and talkative. I, of course, talked too much. I get so excited that I ramble on and on. I'm sure we could have finished an hour earlier if I had more concise answers. 

The only thing that was a shock to me was how little she looked around our house. She leaned her head in every room, but she didn't walk into many. It was very relaxed. 

I am grateful for Lifelife and their staff. 

Homework: Each of us have to write an autobiography. The page of bullets with the info that we have to cover is 5 pages long. I can only imagine how long our autobiographies will be.