phone call...

This afternoon I received a phone call from one of the agency's supervisors/administrators. I missed the call because I was out of my office for a minute and when I returned my BB was lit up with 2 missed calls. The first missed calls was from a close girl friend that I had not talked to in a few days and the second call was from a number that did not have a name attached to it in my phone's address book, so I called it back. Low and behold it was the phone of one of the caseworkers that the supervisor was calling from and while I was calling her, she was calling me back.

To make a long story short, they thought of us when this case just came up and remembered us since we started the process of beginning the home study. It is a very young sibling group with both genders. She advised us that she immediately thought of us when this case came up.
The children are in care with a family that is taking great care of them and they are heavily involved in activities, however, they will be more than likely be adoptable really soon and would like to have them in transition with a family.
The supervisor met us during the second week of our classes back in the fall and remembered us. She called me personally and asked if we were interesting in hearing more information by meeting with the SW. I asked pertinent questions up front regarding our profile and what we were willing to accept as well in our phone conversation today. She shared with me the information that she knew right off hand, however the actual CW would be able to talk with us more in depth.

Although our paperwork is not officially approved in the system, it is just a matter of them finishing uploading the final home study into the system, however, we have been cleared (background checks, drug tests, physicals, references, financials and all of the necessary stuff up front) and gone through every thing else required. She said that we could meet with the children's case worker to get more details and if we were interested in meeting them we could schedule a time to meet them if we were interested. She stated that if we were interested, our paperwork would be complete anyway in the next couple of weeks if we decided to move forward and do weekend visits to transition.

The concern of mine is more so that one of the kids is an older toddler/preschooler and I did not anticipate 2 toddlers or one toddler and one preschooler at one time. Our home study stated we were open to birth -2 years old, however, this is a little different since it is a sibling group. I don't think we actually anticipated 2 at one time either to be honest! Anyway, we are honored that these people took the time out to find our information and remembered us ( I don't think it was too hard ;-)) and thought about us with this particular case. It did make me feel good to know that we are thought about and considered when many people are waiting.

As with anything, we are open to meeting and discussing the case, however, we are praying on everything hard and we will see what unfolds when we meet and after we meet. We wanted to definitely meet with the SW because we just don't want to say no and we have not even reviewed the case or met the children, just because our mind was set on one thing. Although, the age of the older child was not in our preference, or was it? I can't remember.
Maybe we did stay open to 4 years old. It has been a while since we filled the paperwork out. However, right now they do not have many babies waiting for placement, however, we are not overly anxious and we know that cases come up sporadically, however children that are almost ready to be adopted are not in high numbers. We have waited this long, therefore, we can wait a little longer if necessary, to have the appropriate placement.

Again, I do not know how this will turn out, however, we are definitely people who are open to listening and reviewing the case. I know my mind says that this is way too much at one time when I think of it, but it is worth meeting with them and not just saying No. Ideally in my mind we would take placement with one child so that we could nurture the child and have our kids a year apart, however, we all know that is not how things work all of the time. She does have one more family to contact that may have a desire to adopt 2 little ones. We have to give her a call back on tomorrow to let her know if we are interested in meeting with the caseworker to proceed.

I will update here on what we decided to do as far as moving forward meeting with the CW and possibly meeting the little ones. This journey is turning out to be an interesting one to say the least!