Home Visit Done!

Yah! Our home visit is complete! All of our forms are in and our social worker is just waiting on a couple of referral letters to come in. Our social worker, Amanda, was very sweet and did video training as well as interviewed John and I for the USCIS forms. She met the kids and went through potential problems, attachment therapy etc...basically reconfirmed most of the things we knew through other training, but we did learn that Vanderbilt has an entire department dedicated to International Adoption with Specific Pediatricians that conduct physicals (which are strongly advised) when you bring your child home! We are so lucky to have such great resources here! These Doctors are trained to look for specific problems from children from different regions. There are also tons of resources and support groups for parents in the process and she strongly recommended therapy for us through the process and warned it's not a matter of IF there will be problems (such as slow movement --other countries sense of urgency isn't quite like ours here in the US) in the process but WHEN. I have read that everywhere! So it's very important for us to be very flexible and just try and go with the flow!
So now we are just preparing for the dossier and getting this together and just waiting on Amanda to compile our homestudy to send in with our application for immigration! I felt a huge relief today about this being done and spoke with her about letting more people in on our "secret" and expressed to her how I was so scared I would jinx it and she strongly suggested letting people in on it that will be supportive because it makes the biggest difference in having prayers and support in the process. So I can't wait to spread the news! I am so excited like you feel when you are pregnant--it's just a surreal feeling.  I just envision the day I get to see our child God created for us all the way over on the other side of the world! Pretty darn cool.