Second Home Study Meeting

Today we had our second home study meeting in our home.  Jason and I woke up early to get the house cleaned, the driveway de-iced, and ourselves ready for the meeting. Michele arrived about 20 minutes early, which was okay because we were just playing Wii to pass time until our noon meeting. Michele came in and we all sat at the kitchen table and got down to business. I owed her a couple of papers, so we gave them to her and she checked them off her list. She proceeded to ask us some questions about our home, neighborhood, and community. I gave her a tour of our house, pointed out the room(s) our child(ren) would sleep in, and all the other rooms in our home and their function. I also included my usual commentary on how we have updated the home since we bought it! ;-) After the tour we went back to the kitchen table and chit-chatted a bit, asked her about the next visit on Sunday, and then she was done!! It only took about an hour, and the time seemed to fly by!

Jason wasn't feeling very well, and waking up early to break up the ice on the driveway had not helped! He took a nap for a bit. When he woke up, we went to go pick up a changing table I had to leave behind when I bought baby stuff from a lady on craigslist. We drove out to Summerfield (about 20 minutes away) and arrived at her hectic home just as she was changing her 18 month old's diaper on the couch! ;-) Guess she really doesn't need the changing table!! Jason and I had quite a time getting the bulky piece from the back bedroom, out the front door, down the porch stairs, through the muddy yard to find that it would not fit on my car!  Jason confidently, due to his years of working in the furniture department at Mejiers, disassembled the cabinet piece by piece with just two screwdrivers. As Jason was working on the table, the lady's 4 year old came out of the house with flip-flops on.  As she was just telling him to go back inside and get better shoes on, he skidded on the mud down the yard and got his pants and jacket caked in the mud!! He was quite upset by this, but didn't cry... he ran in the house and not 5 minutes later was back with a smile and a whole new outfit on!  As we packed up and left, he gave us hugs and asked us to come back soon to play Wii with him!  So cute!!

As we drove away from their house, Jason said he did not actually want the changing table! We were driving past the Goodwill store on our way home, so we dropped the table off!! Too funny! ;-)

That evening, we had a double date night with our "Greensboro parents" Charlie and Martha (our neighbors, but they have now been deemed our GB-rents because they do so much for us!). We went to dinner at Smokey Bones where they wanted to know all about how our home study visit went, the timeline left in the process, and when we would be back in town.  We really enjoy spending time with them and Martha and Jason can have some very funny banter! We saw "The Kings Speech" after that, which does have some bad language, but we all thought was a very good movie!  The four main characters do a great job acting and the cinematography (I think that's what its called!) was interesting.  We went back to Charlie and Martha's to chit-chat and enjoy each others company!  They are such great neighbors and friends!! (and parents ;)