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well tomorrow my husband and i finish MAPP. We are both Licensed foster parents, now all we are waiting for is the homestudy. Im kind of expecting it to be just like the foster care home study with more questions. Our sw said though that it may be a month or more before we even get any appointments to begin the homestudy i guess a couple more months is nothing to the eight years we have already waited to have a child of our own. my husband makes me smile when he gets all excited about this. all day at work that is all he talks about to people. For the longest time i wasn't sure he was too interested but after doing the MAPP he is really into it. Our family is getting excited also. My little sister talks about "watching the baby" or "can she take our baby to the park to play". We tell her all the time that she is going to be an auntie. see my sister was also adopted just six years ago (nine y/o now) and she knows that she was adopted so she knows all about this. She tells us just to go to the hospital and pick one out like we did with her (well almost a complete understanding, lol). We have to tell her that it isn't that easy (I wish it was though). So, ok, now that i have babbled i just wanted to tell someone who might understand how i am getting the jitters now that the homestudy is just around the corner. "One step closer" my mom tells us. I can't wait to just be able to say that i am a mom.