Orientation Interview:
This was our very first interview and meet and greet with our social worker, Megan. The meeting was broken up into three sessions. First, she interviewed us together asking various questions about our lives. Second, she interviewed us separately and then together again. It lasted about three and a half hours. Grueling. Gunnar and I felt like we had been sent to the principals office. However, the meeting couldn't have gone better. She emailed us immediately along with over 80 pages of paperwork! WOOHOO!
Home-Visit Interview- AKA Home Invasion!!
For this meeting, Megan came to our home. I was positive she was going to judge me and my dirty baseboards and my garage that lacked any form of organization. I was completely wrong! She was simply there to make sure we actually lived in a house and had enough room for another baby. The meeting consisted of a lot of questions about our marriage and conflict resolution. It lasted about three hours, by the end of it we were both mentally exhausted, but incredibly happy to be done with our first home visit!
Second Interview:
For about a month after our home visit we had to put together our autobiographies. Which ended up being about 4 pages long for both of us. It was pretty easy, but a little challenging when it came to some questions. The second interview was done individually. Gunnar did his first because he was leaving to go to training for 6 weeks. I did mine a few weeks later. The meeting lasted about two hours and mainly focused on our autobiographies. Both of our meetings went great. We also learned a lot more about the process.
We have two more interviews and a conference in August and we are DONE! Then we will have an adoption profile ready to be shown to birth moms!
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Brooke
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