Home Study Guideline Questions...

We turned in our responses to the home study guideline questions yesterday.  Finally!  Our case worker, Sheila, uses our responses to write up her formal home study report.  In the end, it took us about three weeks, with some procrastinating, to get through it.  We put in a couple of hours every few days.  The final result totaled 18 typed pages, single spaced, and that was keeping it short and simple.  I have to say, we did not enjoy this portion of the journey, and the completion of these questions had been weighing on us for a while.  They ask every question you could ever think to ask a person, and then they ask it again in four different ways.  The redundancy was very frustrating.  At one point we complained to each other that it wasn’t fair; we shouldn’t have to do this when “normal” people don’t have to.  We quickly corrected ourselves and said that, actually, everyone should have to do this.  It does get you thinking and talking about things you otherwise probably wouldn’t, at least not with this amount of energy.  For that, I suppose I’ll concede that it was a good thing.  I can say that now because it’s over.  Or at least with any luck it’s over.  We suspect Sheila may come back to us for more detail in some areas—hope not, though.