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Congratulations!!!! Boy do I remember all those feelings! Try not to stress too much about the homestudy. I've probably said this before but one thing we learned going through ours is that it's really about red tape more than anything. Our social worker had a set of questions that she just had to run through and most of them we had answered on our questionare they had sent to us. She didn't white glove our house either. I was going to do the same thing and clean out closets etc. but my husband brought me to my senses before I got too nuts. LOL All I have to say is THANK GOD she didn't look in our garage! LOL
How I dealt with the wait before matching was to stress like crazy, read everything online about adoption I could, started buying some of the necessity baby stuff that was neutral and prayed a LOT! Now that we've been matched and the baby is due next month and there's not alot left to do I find myself still trying to learn the very valuable lesson of letting go of the things I have not control over and trying to be as patient as I can possibly be. I'm just starting to feel less frantic and relaxed about the process and it's so wonderful.
So if there is one thing I can recommend doing it would be to take care of yourself and enjoy this time. You're in the process of becoming somebody's Mommy!
Congrats and good luck!
Julia
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