Because, nothing is what is happening! Still waiting for our homestudy dates although I hear tell that some of our peers from prep groups may have theirs... (pulls out 'hopeful face number 46')
In the meantime I have been reading, tweeting and reading some more. We have been getting the books out of the library as we didn't want to spend too much money on unecessary books and I had the intention of reviewing some of them on here. Trouble is, they go back to the library, we read more books, then I get muddled as to what was in which! Lets say I will never make a satisfactory book reviewer...
We have also been telling a few people as we go along the way and they have all been very lovely so far! We are also seeing friends who we told a while ago and the all start the conversation the same way 'So... how's the adoption thing going?' to which we inevitably answer 'slowly...'
Anyway, two months after prep groups here we sit. Fortunately we have plenty to be doing with a boisterous 8 year old in the house so we are not left to stew. Thankfully we are still very positive!
So, thats all about nothing from me. Here is hoping I get to blog about something more concrete soon.
It seems like it takes forever...then all of a sudden it speeds along. Seemed forever to get to court with my son, and now its here only seems 5 minutes since we first met him in August.
ReplyDeleteIt does take ages we were nearly 3 years from start to finish with our Daughter and then 18 months when we adopted her birth brother, It seems like all Social Workers work at different paces and check things different. however one we were approved it only took us 5 months to find our daughter it was the approval that took all the time,which can be very frustrating and does put a lot of people off keep with it, it will all work out in the end.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comments - its so nice to hear from people who have been there!
ReplyDeleteSounds like you have a pretty rubbish social worker. I carry out homestudy assessments and would never leave a family waiting longer than 2 weeks for their dates.
ReplyDeleteChase up the social worker/department and make them accountable.
Ah - therein lies the problem, we don't have a social worker yet... just sitting in a queue!
ReplyDeleteThey have been in touch apologising - cuts, resources, will assign one to us when they can - etc.