While we wait for our Interpol clearance, we are filling the Application Form for our Albertan agency. It covers the basic information they need to open a file for our family. It is also getting our thoughts process started on the details we should have figured out before the Home Study starts.
In addition to really basic questions (date of marriage, do we have criminal records, do we already have children, etc), it has a more personnal section for each of us to fill separately. It's a really short one, but it feels like a mini-rehearsal for what's coming... It asks for a short description of our personnalities, our values and interests and our motivations to adopt.
It requires a little bit of thinking, and I believe it's a good thing. We are soon going to be scrutinized in every corner of our personnalities during the Home Study. They will want to know everything about our beliefs, our upbringings, our views on very specific issues (mostly related to raising children), our relationship and our support network. This form first, and then the Home Study Self Report that we will have to fill in soon, are helping us slowly step up to the level of indiscretion we are going to be exposed to!
The form also has a section about our finances, where we have to detail our earnings and expenses, and all the assets and debts we have.
The toughest section is the last one. It is about the child we wish to adopt. It felt very odd to tick little boxes about the potential health issues we are willing to accept... We want to be good parents and be accepting of who our little one really is. This "grocery list" process felt really strange...
We ended up asking to be matched with a baby less than 12 months old, with no gender preference. We also said ethnicity was not important. We asked for a healthy baby, as much as possible, although we know we are going to love our kid anyhow. I am really hoping that this takes us to the one child that is meant to be ours!
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