Step one is finally complete!

After a long wait......104 days to be exact....our home study is complete.  For those of you who are not up on the adoption terms, a home study is a detailed written report of your family, compiled and prepared by a social worker. So, over the past few months we have been interviewed numerous times by a social worker, gathered more documents that you could ever imagine, and been investigated under a microscope to make sure we are fit parents to adopt.  They have even interviewed Caden (everyone stop laughing!!) and yes we are able to proceed.  We have done multiple sets of fingerprints, background checks, had 911 reports pulled, finanical statements, reference checks, health screenings, and my favorite so far...the county septic tank inspection.  What in the what?!?!?  So, let me get this straight.  My child is in China, living in an orphanage, going to the bathroom in...well who knows where, but it is important to have my septic tank inspected.  Oh, well it is done.  The past few months my dining room table has been turned into the adoption paperwork center.  A normal size desk isn't big enough people!  I'm talking about serious stacks of paperwork.  So, with all that said...step one is complete.  Now time to move along to another step.