Your post brought back many memories of me being absolutely NERVE-WRACKED about our home visit, which turned out to truly be so relaxed and unintimidating. I even made my husband by milk before our home study worker came over in case she looked in our frig, because I was convinced that "good parents" have milk in their frig at all times (how ridiculous is that?!)
. It's so easy to overthink things and expect it to be a bigger deal than it really turns out to be. It IS so important you would think it would be a lot more intimidating than it is, but ours really wasn't. We had three visits and she didn't even look at our house until the 3rd visit and it took her just a few minutes. We didn't even have to have things baby-proofed yet or anything. I know everyone's experience is different, but it seems to be more common than not that most people's Homestudies end up being pretty painless (at least in terms of having your house inspected). Hope that helps! Congrats on starting your homestudy soon-you're one step closer!