Home Study

Home Study Issues
While waiting for our passports we’ve been debating who should do our home study. We live in Washington close to Portland Oregon. The social worker we found to do it is associated with an agency licensed in Oregon, but not Washington. He says he is a licensed social worker so he can do home studies anywhere, but I’m not so sure. So we’re thinking about finding an instate social worker.

Home Study Resolutions
Amazingly enough a couple moved into our neighborhood who are planning to adopt from Ethiopia. With out our asking they told us about the social worker doing their home study and they indicated they were awfully pleased with her. I contacted her today and had a very pleasant conversation. Since we are planning on adopting older children she recommended a web site, a book, and a periodical. She sounded knowledgeable enough, but what I especially enjoyed hearing is that she only charges $900 to do the home study. The other social workers we talked to were in the $1500 range. Money isn’t everything, but this is a significant saving and of all the people we considered to do our home study, in my opinion, she was the best.

Passports

Well I haven’t posted as much as I thought I would. Life and stuff keeps us busy. That and there’s really not much to report. We sent for our passports first thing because we figured that would take the longest, but we already have them back. We applied for them on 1-9-09 and had them back by 1-26-09. FYI, for both ours it cost $229.