Ok, I was getting a little bit nervous and found myself stressing a little about the timing of when our homestudy is going to get done....
Basically, all we have left to do to have our homestudy go to Taiwan (which, starts our waiting period... kinda like a LID for China adoptions) is for our social worker to come and do a quick one hour visit. That is all that is holding us up from getting our place in line for a referral for Taiwan.... We sent all our paperwork in to our Homestudy agency early last week so I was beginning to wonder why we were not getting a call from our social worker. So, today, I was thinking about it and beginning to wonder what would happen if we ended up losing our spot for turning in our homestudy.....With Taiwan and the way it works with our agency, is that the orphanage they work with only accepts 3 homestudies at a time to wait for a referral... if they have more, the 4th and the ones after, have to wait until referrals start happening... When we signed up with our Taiwan agency, they told us that they at that point, had 2 homestudies in Taiwan so they could send one more in. Since I thought our homestudy would be very quick, I was excited that we could be the 3rd homestudy to be sent... But, since it has taken a little bit longer than I anticipated and there are several families working right now to get their homestudy done, I was starting to get nervous and wonder what would happen if we didn't make it in time.....
So, I emailed our social worker tonight to ask if she could please do our home visit before Christmas so that we can get our homestudy ready to go and hopefully sent to Taiwan in January. I was not at all expecting to hear from her, and prayed and gave up the whole process to God again... knowing that He really is in charge of this and I don't have to worry.... About 2 hours later, our phone rang and it was our social worker calling to set up our home visit appt and she was so accomodating of our schedule and wants to meet us THIS WEDNESDAY!!! I am so excited! The only problem that I see so far is that Aaron usually works long hours on wednesdays because he has surgery all day but I am praying God will work it out so he can come home by 6:30pm.
Thank you God, for answering my prayer :)
Basically, all we have left to do to have our homestudy go to Taiwan (which, starts our waiting period... kinda like a LID for China adoptions) is for our social worker to come and do a quick one hour visit. That is all that is holding us up from getting our place in line for a referral for Taiwan.... We sent all our paperwork in to our Homestudy agency early last week so I was beginning to wonder why we were not getting a call from our social worker. So, today, I was thinking about it and beginning to wonder what would happen if we ended up losing our spot for turning in our homestudy.....With Taiwan and the way it works with our agency, is that the orphanage they work with only accepts 3 homestudies at a time to wait for a referral... if they have more, the 4th and the ones after, have to wait until referrals start happening... When we signed up with our Taiwan agency, they told us that they at that point, had 2 homestudies in Taiwan so they could send one more in. Since I thought our homestudy would be very quick, I was excited that we could be the 3rd homestudy to be sent... But, since it has taken a little bit longer than I anticipated and there are several families working right now to get their homestudy done, I was starting to get nervous and wonder what would happen if we didn't make it in time.....
So, I emailed our social worker tonight to ask if she could please do our home visit before Christmas so that we can get our homestudy ready to go and hopefully sent to Taiwan in January. I was not at all expecting to hear from her, and prayed and gave up the whole process to God again... knowing that He really is in charge of this and I don't have to worry.... About 2 hours later, our phone rang and it was our social worker calling to set up our home visit appt and she was so accomodating of our schedule and wants to meet us THIS WEDNESDAY!!! I am so excited! The only problem that I see so far is that Aaron usually works long hours on wednesdays because he has surgery all day but I am praying God will work it out so he can come home by 6:30pm.
Thank you God, for answering my prayer :)
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