Happy December! We are so excited about everything going on with our adoption process at this point! We are right in the middle of the approval process. As you may remember reading, once our home study and paperwork are completed, we go for local, regional, and state approval. Russell received a call from our social worker this afternoon to update us on the progress. We are currently in the stage of local approval. It needs just one more signature to be approved locally! It then goes on to regional and state approval. She said we should have regional and state approval by the middle of January! Wow!
So what's next? After we receive approval from the state, our social worker will work to find us a match. It could be one or even two children! If we get two children, it would be a sibling group of either two boys or two girls. How amazing would that be? Of course, we would be soo happy just to get a child. But the possibility that we could get siblings is AWESOME!! Now our expected timeline for a child is late January (at the extreme earliest) to March (in reality).
We hope all of you are getting ready for a very Merry Christmas! We will update as soon as we have more news!
Hello Taryn and Russell, good luck in your journey. My wife and I adopted a 13yr old from DSS state care - who is 20 now - and it was a bit of a roller coaster ride, but well worth it, and a great joy seeing someone blossom and grow.
ReplyDeleteI have a "what we learned" document I would share with you, but not sure how to send attachment. -tom, Massachusetts.