state licensing

Today we had our first meeting with the social worker who will be working to license us as foster parents through the state of California. In order to adopt through California's foster care system, one needs to be concurrently licensed as a fost/adopt parent. It was a painless meeting, though it seemed to focus more on foster parenting! We had to keep reminding the social worker we were there to start the process to adopt! Anyway, we got a bunch of paperwork and once we complete and return it, then she will do a homevisit. The last time she did licensing through the State was three years ago, so she had to dust off her manuals!