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Saturday, April 26, 2008
Friday, April 25, 2008
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Homestudy Paperwork Is In!!!
*huuuuge sigh of relief*
We handed in our paperwork, after a wonderful two-hour talk with Jennifer about cross-racial parenting and families (She's an expert--not only a social worker and an adoption educator but a Caucasian mom of two African-American teens!) She seemed quite pleased with our perspectives and thoughts. Ken also thought she simply enjoyed talking with us. He was definitely humorous at times!
Sooo... now we wait for our social worker to compile our stuff, send us a copy to review, and then the agency people decide if they want to take us on and put us in the "baby pool." All signs indicate we're likely to be accepted, but it's still just a bit unnerving, waiting for approval. That and we need to start getting together a "dear birthparent" letter (telling a potential birthmom and dad about us and why we want to adopt a baby) and a scrapbook of our lives. This will be one of the most important "projects" of our lives--choosing phrases and pictures to express who we are and what sort of parents we would be, with the intention of convincing someone to choose us to be their biological child's "forever family."
We handed in our paperwork, after a wonderful two-hour talk with Jennifer about cross-racial parenting and families (She's an expert--not only a social worker and an adoption educator but a Caucasian mom of two African-American teens!) She seemed quite pleased with our perspectives and thoughts. Ken also thought she simply enjoyed talking with us. He was definitely humorous at times!
Sooo... now we wait for our social worker to compile our stuff, send us a copy to review, and then the agency people decide if they want to take us on and put us in the "baby pool." All signs indicate we're likely to be accepted, but it's still just a bit unnerving, waiting for approval. That and we need to start getting together a "dear birthparent" letter (telling a potential birthmom and dad about us and why we want to adopt a baby) and a scrapbook of our lives. This will be one of the most important "projects" of our lives--choosing phrases and pictures to express who we are and what sort of parents we would be, with the intention of convincing someone to choose us to be their biological child's "forever family."
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Nearly Done with Adoption Homestudy!
Hooray!!!
We're nearly done with the homestudy paperwork! We got Ken's NJ driver's record the other day, I found Ivan's latest vet records, and we attended the agenc'y transracial adoption seminar (it's the third one down--yes, we'd be taking the first two later on also!) We're considering a child of any ethnicity (or, more likely, combination of ethnic origins, this is the US!).
All we have to do now is finish our net worth statement, sign a few papers, and get our sanitary survey approval (the water people didn't send their test results to our Health Dept. sanitary-survey guy so I plan to fax them to him Monday).
Thursday we meet with Jennifer, who handles adoptive-parent training, and (I hope!) hand in the homestudy packet!
Then...
We wait for approval from the agency to be put in their domestic "baby pool."
Then "all" we have to do is take more classes (as mentioned above), do a scrapbook about our lives and what great parents we'd make for potential birthparents to read, and wait for a birth mom or birthparents to decide they want us to adopt their baby! Then of course there's getting the baby, the 30 days' wait to finalize the adoption in the courthouse for a child to be truly ours!
Almost makes 10 lunar cycles of pregnancy ending in labor and delivery look easy, doesn't it? Almost.
We're nearly done with the homestudy paperwork! We got Ken's NJ driver's record the other day, I found Ivan's latest vet records, and we attended the agenc'y transracial adoption seminar (it's the third one down--yes, we'd be taking the first two later on also!) We're considering a child of any ethnicity (or, more likely, combination of ethnic origins, this is the US!).
All we have to do now is finish our net worth statement, sign a few papers, and get our sanitary survey approval (the water people didn't send their test results to our Health Dept. sanitary-survey guy so I plan to fax them to him Monday).
Thursday we meet with Jennifer, who handles adoptive-parent training, and (I hope!) hand in the homestudy packet!
Then...
We wait for approval from the agency to be put in their domestic "baby pool."
Then "all" we have to do is take more classes (as mentioned above), do a scrapbook about our lives and what great parents we'd make for potential birthparents to read, and wait for a birth mom or birthparents to decide they want us to adopt their baby! Then of course there's getting the baby, the 30 days' wait to finalize the adoption in the courthouse for a child to be truly ours!
Almost makes 10 lunar cycles of pregnancy ending in labor and delivery look easy, doesn't it? Almost.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Soon the story will be told...
Pictures from my Anime Boston experience are coming! As soon as I can figure out Picasa's Web Album feature, that is...
here's one for now of me and my friend Mariella cosplaying (dressing up and acting like characters from a manga or anime).
We're Hikaru (me, in yellow) and Sai from Hikaru no Go. More details and pics later!
here's one for now of me and my friend Mariella cosplaying (dressing up and acting like characters from a manga or anime).
We're Hikaru (me, in yellow) and Sai from Hikaru no Go. More details and pics later!
ignore this message
You didn't ignore it! What did I tell you???
I messed up using Picasa and Blogger, okay? I'm not the great ubergeek webmistress you all think I am!
(hee hee hee)
I messed up using Picasa and Blogger, okay? I'm not the great ubergeek webmistress you all think I am!
(hee hee hee)
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Argh!
Note to my subconscious: this is not a funny April Fool's joke.
I had my first homeowner nightmare last night. We bought a Greenbelt Coop* frame house (they're a lot cheaper than the brick or block ones) sight unseen and OMG it was awful. Gaps between the floorboards, nothing underneath them but the first floor, and a running gap between the floor and one whole side of an outside wall. And the building swayed when you jumped hard. It really felt real, which was the truly scary part. Oh, and it was in either North or South Carolina. Mom and Dad had to come rescue me because I was practically hysterical (Don't know where Ken was, probably working.)
Fortunately I was awakened by the water-testing guy calling to say he was coming around 9 or 9:30.
*Ken and I have been eyeing that community because it's affordable, has a close sense of community, and has lots of great amenities like a woodland trail, coop nursery, and community center.
I had my first homeowner nightmare last night. We bought a Greenbelt Coop* frame house (they're a lot cheaper than the brick or block ones) sight unseen and OMG it was awful. Gaps between the floorboards, nothing underneath them but the first floor, and a running gap between the floor and one whole side of an outside wall. And the building swayed when you jumped hard. It really felt real, which was the truly scary part. Oh, and it was in either North or South Carolina. Mom and Dad had to come rescue me because I was practically hysterical (Don't know where Ken was, probably working.)
Fortunately I was awakened by the water-testing guy calling to say he was coming around 9 or 9:30.
*Ken and I have been eyeing that community because it's affordable, has a close sense of community, and has lots of great amenities like a woodland trail, coop nursery, and community center.
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