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A couple of home visit questions
We are about to schedule our home visit and I just thought of a few things:
1. Did you serve any snacks/coffee/tea? I don't want it to look like we have a whole spread out, but I was thinking maybe a bowl of fruit salad, some muffins and coffee? Am I wasting my time/money on this stuff?
2. DH has a sports room. We have 3 bedrooms in our house, one is a guest room, one is our room and one is home to bobble heads, mugs, pennants, posters, footballs, etc. He knows it can't be his room forever, lol, but is that something we should clean out for the visit?
3. The guest room: We have a full sized bed, a dresser and a night stand in there. We plan on donating those things to our local school's garage sale, but it's not until after the visit. Should we take the furniture out before then anyway to show we have an empty room ready to go?
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Re: A couple of home visit questions
1) I don't think the snacks, etc. are necessary, but it also wouldn't hurt. However, when offered, our social worker only requested a glass of water.
2) We have a sports room as well in our basement and didn't change a single thing in it. In fact, I don't think it even crossed my mind as I was so worried about the rest of the house haha.
3) I'd just leave your room as is. During the quick tour, we simply mentioned that our guestroom would be where we would have the childs room and that was it.
Good luck in your homestudy. I promise, it will go much smoother than you think! I was a nervous wreck before our social worker came to visit and it was the most relaxing and educational visit ever. The tour of our house lasted maybe 5 or 10 minutes.
Thank you!
This is actually the very last step of our home study. Our agency works a bit differently with home studies. We have group home studies where we go to two sessions with three other couples. They ask everything about you in a group setting. It was actually more comfortable than I thought it would be.
This. I would tell SW the plan and leave it at that.
I agree with pps. Our SW did not eat or drink anything. Took a mili-second of a look in our bedrooms and spent almost the whole time in the living room. She was only at our house for about an hour and then she was gone. I stressed about everything but in the end it went very smoothly. I am sure yours will go the same.
Good luck!
1. I had no food, but we did offer coffee (which she accepted).
2. The room sounds cute. I'd leave it.
3. We haven't moved/donated any of our furniture. We just told her of our plans.
GL!
1. We had them available, but it was only 45 minutes long and the SWs declined. You can have them out, but just use what you have around the house.
2. No. We have a craft room and didn't do anything special with it.
3. No. You just have to show you have room for a baby, not that you have a full-on nursery ready to go.
GL!
We offered her something to drink and she askd for a soda.
I don't think you need to clean out either one of those rooms. Our nursery was a guest bedroom when we had our home visit and the other room is an office which will be the play room. It's not necessary to make more work for youself for the home visit. Good luck!