Update

We are about halfway through our home study.  We have completed the orientation interview, the first meeting with our social worker and today I completed my individual interview with our social worker.  Tomorrow Robert will meet with the social worker for his individual interview and then we will have another meeting with her together next week.  About a week after that, we will have a final home tour to complete the home study.

We have had a little trouble with the fingerprints.  Our cards were returned to us because they were incomplete, so we completed them and resent them on 10/26.  Then, there was an error with the way the SBCN entered Robert's name into the computer and they had to correct it and resubmit his cards.  Even with these obstacles, we are still ahead of schedule as our fingerprint clearances are complete as of today and we are just waiting for them to arrive in the mail.  We were told that we should receive them in about a week.  Originally we expected to have a wait time of up to three months so if they arrive in a week, that will only be about a one month wait.  I am praying that we receive the clearance letters very quickly.  I thought this would be a painfully slow process from the beginning but so far everything seems to be moving along faster than I expected.  I am prepared for obstacles ahead, but I am thankful that everything seems to be moving along so well right now.