Meet and Greet

   After a couple of weeks of getting the run-a-round from a few agencies, we decided to go with the original agency that we had orientation with. The location is not ideal, it's about an hour drive from us, but it's only once a week for ten weeks so I think we can handle it. We were told from the beginning not to let location hinder our choices. After training, as far as I was told, they come to you anyway.
 
   The first thing that we had to do was called a "meet-and-greet". That's where our "agent", (I have no idea what to actually call her lol), comes to the house to talk to us and look around. Keep in mind, this is not the same thing as a Home Study.
 
   She came over in the afternoon and we spent about 45 minutes talking. She asked us a lot of questions about ourselves and our family, also about our income, the age range that we'd like to foster...things like that. I think the point of the visit is for the agency to get a feel for the family.
 
   Next we took a tour through the house so she could look around. My house was a bit of a mess because I'd been down with a nasty case of Bronchitis for the last couple of weeks and I didn't bother to clean too much. I apologized and she laughed saying that she'd rather see a house that was a little messy than one that was spotless.

   Overall, I felt pretty good about the visit. It gave us just a little more insight 

into our journey as fosters.