Emotional Day

I wasn't expecting today to be so emotional! I seemed to have watery eyes quite a bit during the morning sessions. We discussed topics such as when to tell your child he/she is adopted, what the home study will involve, we listened to a birth mother's story, a lawyer discussed legal issues, we listened to three sets of adoptive parents speak, we discussed financial issues, and the topic of post adoption. Michael spoke up a few times to discuss his story of adoption and several people had questions for him.

I have so much information to digest! I can't even begin to list everything that is going through my head. We have been so excited to get the ball rolling, but once again we have more waiting to do. The agency is behind on their home studies. They are still finishing up couples who attended the September training session. Once they are done with them they will start our group in the order that we completed our formal application. If you remember, we were the third couple. So...for now we sit and wait for them to call us and let us know when they are ready to start our home study. We can call every couple weeks to check in, but I'm not going to get my hopes up that it will be anytime soon. I wish we could use someone else to complete our home study, but they require that you use their social worker so they feel like they really know you...it makes sense, but it's frustrating too.

While we wait we are going to go ahead and start working on the nursery and preparing our adoption book. We will also start writing the letter to the birth-mother and video (picture) slideshow that will go on the website when our home study is completed. Working on these things will help keep my mind occupied and hopefully make time move faster!