Adoption: It Will Soon Be Out of our Hands

Its a big week in the adoption process.  We spent the last month submitting paperwork and following up with Gladney to get our file completed.  On Tuesday, we will be heading out to Ft. Worth to do our personal interviews with the people at Gladney.  This interview process will take about 3 hours.  Then, on Thursday, we have our home study, where our caseworker, Tanya, comes to our house to check the place out and conduct another interview.  This will also take about 3 hours.

So after Thursday, the real waiting will begin.  Once our home study is complete, our file can be handed out to CPS locations all over Texas, and eventually a match will be made with a child.  After our home study, all we can do is wait for information.

And waiting truly is the hardest part.  Its very difficult to do basic things like set up a child's room or buy children's toiletries when you don't know the age, sex or race of the child you will end up adopting.  We did put furniture into the room this weekend.  A chest of drawers and a bookcase was added to the bed and bookshelves that were already in the room.  Kris even did some decorating with some games, crayons, storage tins, and books.  Anything kid-friendly we had on hand.  Since most of the toys and books are things from my childhood, its a fairly masculine room right now, but as generic as we could make it.

So, a few hectic days are ahead of us, then a wait of unknown length, but its a big milestone to complete the initial process.

Comments

[incognato]

Good luck. you two will be great parents. Did they say what the average wait was?

[Kris]

It can be anywhere from 2 months to a year depending on what age, sex, health and behavioral limitations we have. We are pretty open so we are hoping for the earlier placement.

[Craig]

Edit to the blog:
We will actually have both our interview and our home study on Thursday, May 10th. Our case worker traveled on Tuesday, so they will come out to our house and do everything there.