1st Home Study Visit

Today was our first home study visit for John.
We were familiar with the social worker because she had just been here to do our 6 month post adoption report on our son we brought home from Ch*na in March of this year.
She arrived on time and stayed just shy of an hour and a half.
For those of you that wonder what a home study visit is like I can tell you how ours went.
The visit consisted of her taking notes on our views of family and discipline.
We went over finances and made sure there was no criminal history.
The tour of the house was quick. She looked for smoke detectors, made sure we had fire extinguishers, medicines out of reach and cleaners locked up.
I love to keep a tidy house, ok I am somewhat anal about cleaning but even if I we not she only peeked in rooms and did no looking in closets, under beds and never saw the underneath of my sparkly clean toilet seat. (Ha!)
So while it makes you feel better to have your home spotless, it isn't really going to matter.
What's going to matter is that you have a safe home with room enough for your newest family member.
I would like to say that after her visit next Sunday she will be done and ready to write up the report.
However, we are thinking it will be a 4 visit home study which is different from our previous home study in another state.
We are hoping and praying to reuse our dossier from our last adoption but that has a timeline and we are pushing the limit to get this done.
Please keep us in your prayers that we can accomplish this and keep on our timeline to bring John home early summer.
We received an e-mail from a mom that visited John in his orphanage and while she said he is healthy and being cared for he needs to come home soon so if you could please pray for John we would appreciate that.