Ok... Let me explain where we are NOW

Hey everybody.... I have updates!

Cleveland and I have our all day education meeting next Friday. This counts as 2 of the 3 meetings that we have to have for our agency. At that meeting the agency will schedule our actual home visit. The agency says that we should be approved for our homestudy by the 1st week in October. Once we are approved. our profile (dear birthmother letter) will be shown to birth parents planning to place their child for adoption. The birthmother's aren't allowed to choose parents until they are 8 or 9 months pregnant. Some of them don't decide to ask for profiles until after the baby is born. That means that we could be placed with our child with no notice! So we'd better look out!

The social worker says that once we have our dear birthmother letter out there is no telling how quickly we will be placed. There are not a lot of African American adoptive parents out there, so we could be chosen pretty quickly, where as some people wait years for a Caucasian child.

So our new addition could be on his/her way really soon!