Home study Part 2

A lot has happened in the last few days!

 We got the information we needed to start our dossier. I will do a separate post on that. It made the home study paperwork look like a kindergarten assignment!

We have also been assigned a social worker!! Hooray!  We have actually already been in contact with her. She is the representative for Raleigh families who are working with CAS. She is also the coordinator for their Kenya program. Super nice lady who was very helpful to us when we first got started. We will be meeting with her four times. The first visit will be in our home. Then we will meet with her separately and then again together for the last visit.  We were able to schedule our first meeting for Thursday, July 14th. We are really excited to get started. Her goal is to get to know us as a couple and as individuals. She will discuss our reasons for wanting to adopt along with our parenting plan.(and probably a bunch of stuff in between!)

On another note I had my physical on Thursday which went great. I just have to go back for a TB test on Monday and then they will check that on Wednesday. Scott has his appointment for Monday. So we can check this off the list!

Small surprise...we also have to get clearance from the SBI for our home study. We found this out on Thursday on our way to Hilton Head so we haven't had a chance to follow up on this yet. From what I understand we have to get one of the local police departments to finger print us.(all ten prints!) We would then mail that to the SBI with a bunch of paperwork. We plan to try and tackle this Monday...or at least try and figure out were we need to go to get fingerprinted.

We have also been working on our ten hours of online education for our home study. We are about a fourth of the way done. The classes are not that bad and reiterate what we have reading from our suggested reading list.

It seems that things are moving along at a good pace!!

The Rileys

Fun tidbit:  We have read many times in several different books that it is common practice for everyone to wear hats when they are outside in Russia. BUT, not baseball caps! Apparently if you take your child outside without a hat it would not be uncommon for an elderly lady to stop and scold you for taking your kid out without his hat! Guess we are going to have to find some hats for him while we are there! I am not looking to be yelled at!