Parent History Form

What to say? We're in the middle of the homestudy and just told our current apartment complex to take a hike along with their 14% increase in rent. Come on!!! So, we're moving down the street which delays the homestudy or costs us $350 more so they can come out and see our new apartment after we move..and still delays it. So, we're waiting on the home visit part of the homestudy.

Tomorrow, however, we have individual interviews with the case worker. It can all be very intrusive and humiliating and unfair if you think hard about it. Before that though we need to fill out our Parent History Form. It has 20 something questions such as,

"Describe the family in which you grew up. Please include parents' ages,... How often do you see them?"

"What was it like to be a child in your family?..."

"How long have you thought about adopting? Who spoke first of it?..."

Anyway, at the end of the day I rambled on and on like Jack Kerouac for 10 pages or so. Intended Mommy slapped down about 10 of her own. I had half a mind to say "Look, I have a blog with about 70 posts and I'm pretty sure all the answers to these questions are somewhere in there." Actually I think the blog helped a lot when it came to this form b/c not only had we thought a lot about stuff like this we also put finger to keyboard on a lot of it already.

Most adopters dread the homestudy. It's apparently full of lots and lots of paperwork and appointments. Actually most people bitch almost entirely about the paperwork.

It doesn't really seem so bad so far....