Slow and Steady

The past month seems to have gone by slowly as far as adoption progress is concerned, though slow and steady isn't necessarily a bad thing.  As I had mentioned before, we have submitted several inquiries, waited on more info and made some decisions regarding our family being able to fit the needs of a kiddo.  It seemed as though we were in a perpetual limbo of submitting inquiry then waiting for more information.  However, I am now pleased to report that we are finally moving out of the inquire and wait phase! 

My last post made mention of submitting inquiries about a 16 year old girl as well as a 14 year old boy.  Oddly enough, the worker for the 14 year old hasn't been in touch with us since receiving our homestudy.  This is strange considering the fact that she sent us several emails asking us questions and had us fill out a questionnaire.  In a way, I feel that it happened this way for a reason, as we have gotten much further in our process with the 16 year old girl, and perhaps the boy found a potential forever family while they were waiting for our homestudy.  Either way, everything seems to be happening the way it should be, even though we've had a few bumps along the road.

We did get more information on the girl (I feel like she needs a nick name, but haven't thought of one yet).  The worker-friend was so sweet and talked to us for over an hour, giving us as much of history as she could from memory.  We did still have some questions based on what we heard (and still do), so we have been trying to get more information.  Unfortunately, we've run into a bit of a road block at this point, as the agency who did our homestudy does not provide family case workers...and the agency handling our potential kiddo's adoption won't release information to the family without a family worker due to HIPPA regulations.  So we now have an email out to the supervisor of the case worker who did our homestudy to see what our options are as far as acquiring a family worker.

The good news through all of this is that the kiddo's worker feels that once we have a family worker arranged we can get the last bits of information we need and we can have a MATCH STAFFING!!!  She feels we're a good match for the kiddo and wants us to move forward! :-D  Now, we just have to find a family worker, and then we can move on to the next chapter of our adoption story!  It's truly an exciting time, we just don't expect it to move much faster than slow and steady.