Since the last time I updated you guys on our adoption proceedings, I have to admit, it's felt like it's moving slowly. We went ahead and completed our online orientation, filled out our Worker Registration to foster/adopt, completed an assessment of our home (to figure out what we need to update and change to accommodate a child), and registered to have our fingerprints done. We still have to make copies of some documents and actually have our fingerprints done, but with our work schedules, finding that time has been a bit challenging. I plan to get them done next week.
Anyway, with that in mind, I got an e-mail today from the organization we're going through for this process basically asking why we hadn't submitted the paperwork yet. I replied and explained that we had everything done but the fingerprinting, and I asked if we should just turn everything in together when those are done. She responded by telling me to go ahead and submit everything else and she would confirm the background checks when they arrived so that we may get the ball rolling on everything sooner!
When I read this I was immediately excited. Is it too early to be excited? I interpreted her e-mail as saying they want to get the process started with US because we are good candidates. I hope that's true. I went to talk to my principal, who ironically is going through the process of adopting through the foster system as well, and I asked him what he thought it meant for us! He asked what age we were interested in and when I told him older he assured me that we're good candidates and that because we want older the process will probably be pushed through for us.
I don't know if that means LIGHTNING FAST. Will we be placed by the end of summer? By this time next year? I don't know! What I do know is that I am unbelievably excited to be a mom, and receiving that e-mail today really reminded me of how exciting all of this is.
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