Home Study & Puzzle Update

Home Study AND Puzzle Update

After a LONG couple of months gathering and filling out our home study paperwork, we will be sending in our completed packet this week!!! Our paperwork could have been sent in faster, but Ryan went and changed jobs (LOL) meaning all of his information needs to be re-done (insurance switch so all insurance information needs to be recollected and done, salary change which effects our financial statement so financial statements need to be re-done, blah blah, etc). Basically, a lot of paperwork needs to be re-done. He accepted a position with SAIF. He will be doing workman comp claims instead of auto claims like he was doing at State Farm. He starts his new position on April 22. Ryan has been with State Farm for 13 years, so the transition is very bittersweet for him. I am so excited and proud of him. Needless to say, there is still information from his new employer that we will need to gather over the next few months in order for our home study to be complete. Lucky for us, our social worker is awesome and is letting us turn Ryan’s information in at the tail end of our report being written. That way we can move forward with scheduling our home study. Once our social worker has our information, it takes around a month to a month and a half until she comes to our home for two separate 6-8 hour visits. I’m not 100% sure what specifically goes on during those visits, but I’m sure it will consist of many questions about our family, our motivation to adopt, and watching a day in the life of the Mikesh’s. The adoption consultant that we hired (separate from our social worker) will help prepare us for what to expect. It is a bit nerve wracking to have someone come into your home and then write a report about what you are and are not doing right as parents and what we are and aren’t prepared for as adoptive parents. All we can do is be ourselves and try not to be nervous. Once our two home studies are complete, it takes about another month for the social worker to write the report. If we are “approved,” then we’ve got the green light and can apply to agencies and be “matched” any time after that. This process is lengthy and we have and will continue to practice patience along the way. And as always, we promise to keep you posted.

Puzzle Update Week 2

Check out the new “pieces” we added this week!!! Thanks you to so many more families that became a “piece/pieces” of our puzzle.

Our combined total after week 2 is $5,850!!! We are so blessed!

(If you are wanting to become a "piece of our puzzle", just click the donate button at the top right hand corner of our blog. Also, the puzzle description and our adoption announcement are archived under the "March" tab on the right side of our blog if you didn't get a chance to read it).