Getting To Know You
The phone call yesterday went well. First she asked how we planned to pay for this adoption. She was staring at our financial statements and, like anyone would, wondered how we’d be shelling out a few thousand dollars of money we clearly dont have. I didnt open with “God will provide” but I did close with it. I mentioned loans, grants, rolling some change, hoping on the kindness of strangers (or family and friends), robbing a bank, and TWC’s reimbursement plan. By the end she said “Oh, I knew you’d have a plan, that sounds great.” Yep. Then she gave me lovely news. The name of our social worker that will be writing up our Homestudy. Her name is Tenna. Prior to this, I had been secretly worried that we’d get assigned an overworked disgruntled random social worker with little experience in writing adoption homestudies. We were told at our initial information session that social workers are contracted out, so really, it was a luck of the draw. But instead, we got Tenna. She has worked with CAS for quite a few years and has recently relocated to Raleigh (from Greensboro). So, she’ll be handling the homestudy cases in the Triangle. She knows adoption backwards and forwards and will hopefully write us a smashing homestudy. Yay! So, I’m waiting for Tenna to call and schedule our first meeting. Very exciting!
UPDATE: Congrats to Nick & Kelli, they’ll be having a baby BOY! Thats now 3 boys (Evan, Corbin and Connor), 4 TBD in YotB.