Sunday, February 5, 2006
10:47 AM
I gotta tell you- if I were to advise anyone on one single important thing to expediting the process, it would be to GET A GREAT SOCIAL WORKER. If you have the extra cash, go outside your agency (no matter what they tell you) ask around, and get your own social worker. They work for you, as opposed for the agency, so they really have a different attitude and want to get things done.
We paid a couple hundred more than the average for our SW's services, but ours was SO fast and SO good to us. She sent us all the information we needed instantly, answered our emails and phone calls within an hour or so of sending them, and had our in-person appointment scheduled right after we sent in our contract to her (it was within a few weeks, and she was stalling to give us time to move, which didn't happen). She also writes the homestudy within a week of the in-person. I think if we didn't have this moving nonsense, we would have been DTV now, and that's after starting this whole kit-and-caboodle in mid-December.
I'm going to go nuts promoting her (and our agency) when we get DTV, but for privacy right now, I'm not comfortable with it.
Referrals are starting to come in. Tiny little weeny adorable babycakes. Little tiny hands and feet in big diapers. beautiful eyes and skin. I am just so excited for everyone. Yesterday I kept tearing up thinking about how this time next year, our adoption blogs will be baby blogs, and instead of text about The Process, there will be pictures of all our little ones.
A year seems like forever, but I'm trying to remember that it really isn't that far away.
