Tomorrow is THE meeting. The meeting we’ve been working towards and fretting over and talking about and praying for since April. Well, really, I’ve been thinking about this meeting since I first seriously started researching adoption back in January of 2010. Continue reading
Category Archives: Adoption General
Got a Call
Our paperwork lady really worked hard finding us a new social worker! It kind of makes me wonder if God’s hand wasn’t in all of this rearranging.
As an adoptive parent, you want your social worker to feel like a friend. They aren’t the enemy. They aren’t coming into your home to invade your privacy and wander through your home to torture you or make you feel like a criminal. Although sometimes the home study process certainly does feel that way on this end of things. I believe most social workers really are great people who chose social work as their career because they care about people and children. Continue reading
Filed under Homestudy, Personal Posts
Waiting
So. We’ve waited on letters, waited on phone calls, waited on emails, waited on responses, waited for answers…
And still we’re waiting. Continue reading
Filed under Adoption General, Hyperemesis Gravidarum
Over the Shoulder Syndrome
We’re quickly skiing down the road towards our home study face to face interview. For most adoptive parents, this event creates feelings of anxiety. We have one more form to turn in before they can schedule our social worker meeting. One more form. We are turning in our paper treasure hunt left and right. Each form we turn in brings us one step closer to a new baby. Continue reading
Done and Done
We chose! Right after I posted this entry, I got an email from the agency with the gum-smacking receptionist saying they’ve changed their program and their fees and would I like more information? I said yes… But I just don’t know. Continue reading
Filed under Adoption Agencies
Making the Choice
After more thought than the average adoptive parent would EVER put into their agency choice, we have it narrowed down to three agencies we’re really considering. Continue reading
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Dear Agency,
A message in a bottle to our still unknown adoption agency, wherever it may be…
Where are you? Continue reading
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Homestudy: What to Expect
I said when I first started writing this blog that I would write about things that would interest me, and one of the things I searched high and low for was information about the homestudy process. Continue reading
Filed under Adoption General, Homestudy
So…I May Have Goofed…
I messed up. Can I have a do-over?
Okay, did I mention that I’m exhausted? In a recent entry, I attempted to discuss living the “adopted lifestyle.” By this, I meant that I did not want our family to live in a cloud of fear or guilt regarding our choice to adopt. I expressed that it is my belief that some families avoid vacations, certain movies, television shows, books, etc. because their child is adopted. While some of this avoidance may be necessary for older adopted children who have scars related to their adoption or time in foster care, I don’t think it’s necessary for every adopted child. Continue reading
Filed under Adoption Questions, Parenting
Love Makes A Family {by mommyponders} 