adopt

I would much rather adopt than bring my own into the world. There are way too many children in need of a home. I’m still way too young, though.

.... I will have a family consisting of awesome adopted kids that will be loved and nurtured and respected and loved some more!

Too young to do this now, but, when I’m older, I want to adopt a child instead of having a kid.

I’ve wanted to for as long as I can remember. I pray that Jesus will give me a husband with the same desire…

My first child is through adoption. I am currently waiting for a second child (from the same country as my first). Yet, my heart yearns for even more….international adoption, domestic, through foster care….it doesn’t really matter. It’s something I’ve felt in my heart for a long time. As the years pass, the longing is greater.

For me adoption would be a greater joy than having children biologically. The problem is I’m single and any child needs a father. Would it be selfish to go ahead?

We still haven’t gotten our corrected license, but it’s in the works. The sw said she had some bad news so I braced myself. But it was only that she was transferring. We’ve come to expect lots of sw turnover. She said our new sw is more organized and better at matching than she was, which is great news. She said our new sw keeps good contact with the county placement workers and has more time to keep on top of the process, which may mean a shorter wait for our match. We met her in the MAAP classes, and I thought she was a bit naive and condescending but perhaps this will be a good change overall.

I heard about a non-profit matching service, Adopt America Network, that will match parents with children from foster care nationwide. I think they mostly work with older children, but I’m going to look at their web site.

We received our officially signed homestudy and handbook this week! The letter said our certification license was included, but it wasn’t. So I called the secretary, who seemed annoyed that I called until I mentioned it was said to be included. Then she said thanks for reminding her, she needs to get that signed and mailed, but Thursday is a holiday. Okaaaaay.

But she got it in the mail fairly quickly. Unfortunately, there is a typo. On it, we are certified for one child. It’d be hard to accept a sibling group (always the plan!) if we’re certified for one. sigh. Shouldn’t be a big deal to fix, just another thing to follow up on and make me concerned about the agency’s competence.

Every other month there is a meeting between the nearby counties to discuss children and families waiting for a match. There was one two weeks ago, but fortunately we got mentioned since our homestudy was nearly done.

Today it gets faxed officially to the fost/adopt placement departments. Our sw expects it will take 12 months to find our match, but it’s possible we could get calls this week if there are children that fit our criteria that have been waiting. How exciting!

If we don’t get called and time drags on, we can expand our criteria. Or we can take a foster child (who’d have a goal of reunification with bio family) while we wait. It will be interesting to see how this next year unfolds.