Adoption - Individual Interview

I had my individual interview on Tuesday!

Bubba had his on Monday.

Of course I was a nervous wreck before the meeting and was imagining all of these questions that our caseworker was going to ask me and if I would answer them “wrong”

The whole drive up to seattle was exhausting just from all of the thoughts in my head.

I mean this lady, our case worker, is the one who writes up everything about us as a family and presents us to the whole office staff. Puts us on display! How could I not be freaking out about this interview!!

Well, as usual, she was super nice and reassured me that it was informal and that there is no right or wrong answers.

The interview went so well and I actually felt good by the end of it. I thought for sure that I would end up crying during it and I didn’t. only one time I got tears in my eyes, but no tears actually fell. Yay me!

Even though she was nice enough to have a box of tissues waiting on the table for me after bubba told her that I would probably cry during it. Haha!

The questions were simple enough, basically clarification and expansion on questions asked in the autobiography. Surprisingly, some of the things that we talked about were about the process and things that needed to be done and not everything was about my autobiography.

After the interview was over I got the chance to peek at some of the photo books that other couples made. It was so great seeing some examples because I wasn’t all that sure how it’s supposed to look.

Now bubba, he has a “more complicated history” as said by our caseworker so he didn’t get his interview finished in his 3 hour allotment, so he gets to go back at the end of March to finish his.

We also found out that our joint interview, rowan’s interview and our house inspection will all be done at one time!! Yay! All at our house on one day. I’m so excited about this for many reasons!

Another thing done!

Although, I’m finding as we go along with this process, that just as we get something else done I feel like we have more stuff pop up that needs to addressed and gets added to our list.

I now need to get a doctor’s letter and bubba also has to get a doctor’s letter , just make things clear with no questions, to be a part of the homestudy.

While I understand that our caseworker is telling us these things to HELP US and plus it’s her job, it can still be frustrating, but I just try to remind myself that while things keep adding to our list, it’s for our benefit and for our future child.

Now we need to work our parent resource plan, open adoption assignment, and everything for our house inspection (including a fire extinguisher (we have one, just not the one that we are required), first aid kit with certain items, a crib, etc) our photo book and our letter to the birth mother.

I'm also still trying to finish my book DEAR BIRTHMOTHER.

Lots to do !!