(Halloween 2008)
Twins?
I stumbled upon a blog about a couple that had adopted twin girls from China a few months ago, and that got me thinking. I even asked in our initial meeting about the likelihood of twins. And her answer “that is really rare.” Rare, but not impossible!! So Daniel and I were talking about it tonight and we decided to bring it up at our meeting with our international agency. And put in a request. How AWESOME is this?!? I know, very rare. But there could be something here……
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
—Hebrews 11:1
Talked to our international agency! October 13, 2009
Just got off the phone with them and found some things out. First of all, the agency they work with in Korea is Social Welfare Society. There are 4 different agencies over there. Next, the time frame from application to baby is 18 months and the wait after referral is 3-4 months. (and that is included in the timeframe) The average age the babies are when they are referred is 5-6 months. So I am thinking Leah will be between 9-10 months when she comes home – and that would be super!
Our agency is 4 hours away and we need to meet with them soon – kid free. So I need to try to get Grandma to take off a day to watch our babies so we can make the day trip. I will be excited to meet with them as they will be a huge resource of information!!
Timelines
So I have been going around from adoption blog to adoption blog trying to figure out timelines and how long it will be until sweet Leah comes home. Does anyone have an average for me? Our agency said 18 months is normal, but they were actually getting the babies home faster than that lately. I am so not getting my hopes up, but it seems a bit average for families to be getting their referral around the year mark. And the babies seem to be 10-12 months when they come home. I am trying to figure out in my head if Leah has been conceived yet, and I think she has, but our social workers thinks not. I can not wait to get that referral and trace it back to see who is right. (of course that will be way in the back of my head once I get the phone call!)
Do any of my fab blogging friends have any to add to this – what has been your experience? I am so excited to talk to our international agency tomorrow, because I want to ask them an average for age at referral and time between referral and the travel call. At first my husband and I were all for an escort so we would not have to leave our two little ones and travel, but lately I am thinking I may travel alone. Or with my sister. 🙂 hint hint
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Busy weekend!
So all weekend I cleaned out storage trying to find things to consign or sell to help fund this adoption. We did pretty good. We made $110 just selling stuff to a kids consignment shop, and I have a whole car full of things to take tomorrow to the ladies consignment shop.
Tomorrow I talk to our international agency – we need to set up our face to face meeting with them.
Happy Monday!
First homestudy meeting October 9, 2009
Well we had our first homestudy meeting. It went pretty well, our social worker def. had some tough questions for us, but hopefully we answered them right. (if there is a “right”.) I was nervous and don’t have the best answers on things when I am nervous. Would never be a great public speaker that is for sure!!!! One thing that was interesting today was our social worker encouraged us to not be so “white”. Interesting. I am very into learning and understanding the Korean culture, but find it odd to be told I am too “white”. I think I do understand what she is saying, but that is one for the memory bank. She wants us to try to “integrate” more Korean culture into our lives before Leah comes home. I certainly want to try to do that, but where I live, not so sure what is going on as far as Korean culture. I am going to ask our international agency for some ideas. Anyway, I think it was a good meeting overall. We got some paper work taken care of and a list of things to do over the next several months. I am talking with our interernational agency next week and I know we will be traveling up to pay them a visit soon.
Lots to think about from today, that is for sure!
Where did that money tree go? October 7, 2009
YIKES. We are getting hit with whammy fees this week. I found out about $200 extra dollars we need to send our International agency and just realized when I opened the mail today we owe $750 at our first homestudy meeting Friday. OH DEAR. I did not know that was due so fast. Anyone want to come to a yard sale at my house tomorrow? lol
Ladybug bedding October 6, 2009
So we have a 3 bedroom house.
Jack and Anderson share a room right now, but before Leah comes home we are going to give Jack his own room on the main floor and let Anderson and Leah share a room upstairs until we save up the funds to move into a house with more bedrooms. So I have already started thinking about how I am going to decorate a room that belongs to a boy and a girl. Right now the walls are a deep red, with firetruck theme all over. I found this awesome Ladybug bedding with the same color red in it online. I wonder how it would look to decorate one half the room ladybug, and the other half firetruck? lol. Here is the bedding. Of course I am not buying it now, just thinking!!! Any ideas?
First Homestudy meeting set up!
YEA! I heard from our social worker, Mary Sue. We have set up our first meeting for this Friday morning. woot -woot!!!!!
Waiting for Leah 