Oreos and Other News

I'm sitting here eating Oreos. Believe me there are plenty of other things I should be doing. The kitchen needs to be cleaned up from dinner, we, as in Patrick and I, need to work on our adoption workbook/training, I should go run about 12 miles (see the first sentence), and there is laundry in the dryer that needs to be folded. But am I doing any of those things? Nope, I'm eating Oreos and typing a blog post. "Why?" you ask. "Because, I am, " I answer. By the way "because I am" and "because I did" are Andrew originals. "Andrew, why are you running around in nothing but underwear and tennis shoes (or boots depending on the day of the week)?" "Because I am." "Andrew, why did you lock the dog in the closet?" "Because I did." "Andrew why I are you out of bed for the 187th time tonight?" "Because I am." Really, the list could go on for an eternity, but I think you get the point.

In other news (I know, you can't imagine how it could get more exciting than me eating Oreos), all of our paperwork for the home study has been turned in. The home study coordinator is now going to assign us a social worker. Which means soon we will have interviews, both individually and as a married couple, where they ask personal questions about ourselves and our marriage. Which also means that along with the interviews we will have a home visit to inspect observe us in our home evironment. If you don't hear from me for a while I'll be in a closet somewhere hyperventilating. You see, a very nice, very well-meaning person, cornered me today and began telling me home study horror stories. When I was pregnant with Andrew, people would tell me pregnancy horror stories. I had to get to a point where I would just ask people not to tell me all the bad things that could happen in pregnancy. I may quickly reach that same point with adoption. It's not that I so much mind advice or that I'm in denial about all the realities of adoption, but I don't need to hear a laundry list of things that might possibly go awry before, during, or after the home study process. So, if you don't mind, will you please pray that we are assigned a social worker that understands us and works well with our family? And will you also pray that our homestudy goes well and is completed and approved as quickly as possible? And if you have any good pointers from personal experience, you know things like make sure you brush your teeth or give Andrew his weekly bath on the day of the home visit, I would much appreciate them. But please no stories about how your son threw up on your social worker. I just don't need to know.