Our Prep call
OK - so I don't read email as thoroughly as I should and realized around 6:00 that the 6:00 part was not EDT, but rather MDT, meaning we had to wait 2 more hours for the phone call.
So at 8:02 the phone rang and so began our 2+ hour conversation. Lots of adoption stories, some horror stories, but all ended with families bringing kids home. I guess our story will some day be told as one of the horror stories! Hopefully ours to will end up with a happy ending.
The call was informative in that she answered most of our questions. The details she planned on sharing with us were not all that informative as I had read most of what she told us on the message boards. So really, had the phone call ended one hour sooner, I still would have walked away with the same amount of "new" knowledge.
Some of the details of what she did tell us contradicted what D had told us and when I pointed that out she was quick to say she'd follow up with D. Which means that D will now have to go to D2 for an answer. Once D gets the answer back I am sure she will go back to who we spoke with last night, who will then communicate the answer back to us. Sounds crazy huh? Yup, but I would bet my last dollar that that is how it will go. So needless to say i am not going to hold my breath for a quick answer!
One of the issues is the child we are hoping to adopt in jeopardy. I am not going to over-react or get too nervous about it until I hear an answer on it, but it has to do with the age of child we are 'approved" for according to our homestudy vs the age of the child we are hoping to adopt. We were told last night we would need an updated homestudy which is contradictory to what D had told us previously. We'll see how this plays out.
All in all I guess it was a pretty good, somewhat informative call. It did however make us realize that this is really happening. This is real...we could be parents soon. We each dealt with that reality in extremely different ways last night - opposite ends of the spectrum in fact, and had a very long conversation about it. I honeslty am not sure where that conversation is going to lead us in regard to this adoption. At this point, all I can say is "What is meant to be, will be."
So at 8:02 the phone rang and so began our 2+ hour conversation. Lots of adoption stories, some horror stories, but all ended with families bringing kids home. I guess our story will some day be told as one of the horror stories! Hopefully ours to will end up with a happy ending.
The call was informative in that she answered most of our questions. The details she planned on sharing with us were not all that informative as I had read most of what she told us on the message boards. So really, had the phone call ended one hour sooner, I still would have walked away with the same amount of "new" knowledge.
Some of the details of what she did tell us contradicted what D had told us and when I pointed that out she was quick to say she'd follow up with D. Which means that D will now have to go to D2 for an answer. Once D gets the answer back I am sure she will go back to who we spoke with last night, who will then communicate the answer back to us. Sounds crazy huh? Yup, but I would bet my last dollar that that is how it will go. So needless to say i am not going to hold my breath for a quick answer!
One of the issues is the child we are hoping to adopt in jeopardy. I am not going to over-react or get too nervous about it until I hear an answer on it, but it has to do with the age of child we are 'approved" for according to our homestudy vs the age of the child we are hoping to adopt. We were told last night we would need an updated homestudy which is contradictory to what D had told us previously. We'll see how this plays out.
All in all I guess it was a pretty good, somewhat informative call. It did however make us realize that this is really happening. This is real...we could be parents soon. We each dealt with that reality in extremely different ways last night - opposite ends of the spectrum in fact, and had a very long conversation about it. I honeslty am not sure where that conversation is going to lead us in regard to this adoption. At this point, all I can say is "What is meant to be, will be."
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