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The Interview
The interview with the AASK social worker started at 3:00pm yesterday, and lasted two hours. It was even more thorough than I'd expected: she asked about everything from felony convictions, to what kind of child we'd be interested in, to what our own childhoods were like.
I think it went fairly well. Other than my pager going nuts halfway through (which I quickly switched from vibrate to off so I wouldn't be distracted by it -- I figured one of the other guys could handle the storage outage that it was telling me was happening), the whole thing was relatively relaxed, at least as much as someone grilling you about every detail of your personal life and history can be.
We have, however, reached our first official snag in the process. It's an issue Kris needs to deal with before things can go forward, and I'd rather not talk about it any more detail than that since it's Kris's thing and not mine. I'll just say it's something of some importance that he's been putting off for a very long time, and that I will be constantly reminding him to take care of it until it's handled.
A few things that we were afraid might turn out to be problems turned out not to be, though, which was good news. So now, assuming I can get Kris's butt in gear and get this thing resolved, we should be ready to go on to the next step. That step would probably be a parental training session that's coming up in July; we should know more about the specifics of that when the social worker calls us back next week after the team there has gone over our interview notes and, with luck, doesn't deem us completely unfit to be parents.
anxiousI think it went fairly well. Other than my pager going nuts halfway through (which I quickly switched from vibrate to off so I wouldn't be distracted by it -- I figured one of the other guys could handle the storage outage that it was telling me was happening), the whole thing was relatively relaxed, at least as much as someone grilling you about every detail of your personal life and history can be.
We have, however, reached our first official snag in the process. It's an issue Kris needs to deal with before things can go forward, and I'd rather not talk about it any more detail than that since it's Kris's thing and not mine. I'll just say it's something of some importance that he's been putting off for a very long time, and that I will be constantly reminding him to take care of it until it's handled.
A few things that we were afraid might turn out to be problems turned out not to be, though, which was good news. So now, assuming I can get Kris's butt in gear and get this thing resolved, we should be ready to go on to the next step. That step would probably be a parental training session that's coming up in July; we should know more about the specifics of that when the social worker calls us back next week after the team there has gone over our interview notes and, with luck, doesn't deem us completely unfit to be parents.