Our Second Home Study Visit

The second Home Study visit was very short. Lori collected our physical exams and Chris’s biography and gave us information on some of the paperwork we were missing. We have to get local police background checks done for the home study, which we will do this afternoon at the police station. After that, all we are waiting on is the Child Abuse Records Search, the Heart of the Matters certificates, and the reference letters from my friends and family. So far, only one letter has come in. I’m hoping to have the home study process complete by the end of the month so we can get our approval from the USCIS by the end of the year.

Overall, the home study is going really well. We are learning quite a bit of valuable information from the Heart of the Matters video series as well. We discussed some of the things we learned from the video, our visit with CAWLI, and our thoughts on older children as well as children with special needs. Lori is great and I think she is really learning quite a bit about us, China, and our family.