Approval- check!

Since being approved on the 13th,  I've discovered that the adoption process requires a lot of patience.  We were put back into the hands of our state's adoption lady, so our home study social worker is no longer in the picture.  And, for the past two weeks, that's been pretty much all I have to report.  

We did register on adoptuskids.org, so we are able to get extra disability & allergy information without having to make an inquiry... on the roughly 4% of kids who are not protected by local laws. We have sent our home study to one child's social worker in a different state that we found on the website and to a local (in-state) social worker to be considered for a sibling group that was emailed to us (and all state families in our shoes). 

I'm not sure how long it takes the kids' social workers to make a decision, so now we wait.  If any other child/children come up that we are interested in being considered for, we ask our adoption lady to send our home study to them too.  

It really isn't very exciting at this point- especially since I've been fighting tummy issues & the weather has been so awful.  It's just an ordinary life, except we read more profiles about kids than most people. :)  

 

anxiously waiting on approval

We are expecting to be approved as potential adoptive parents on Monday. I'm frustrated right now because I'm not sure what happens after that. Are we still working with our home study social worker? Do we go back to the state's adoption specialist? No idea.  I've asked our home study social worker this question twice with no reply.

Meanwhile, we received additional information about the remaining posted child from our original "inspiration kids" & have decided not to pursue his adoption.  As it turns out, he needs a lot of attention and they believe he would thrive most in a home where he is an only child.  We thought hard about this, since we have become emotionally attached to his profile, but we really want 3 or 4 kids. Also, there is still that chance that a bio kid would enter the picture so even if we did decide on one, it may not be in the cards.

I'm feeling a little blue this weekend. I've been having snow days for a week after having been on winter break, so I think I may just be getting a bit of cabin fever. Bleh.  I'm very hopeful that there will be a flourish of excitement next week when we get our official approval & start the matching process... whatever it is!   :)  Until then, maybe a nap is in order.