Adoption Agency or Bust!!

Jon and I are heading to our adoption agency on the West Coast this afternoon. Wednesday and Thursday are our seminars in which our adoption agency will bring in a host of adoptive parents, birth parents, adopted children, adopted adults, lawyers, etc for us to hear their stories, fire questions at, etc. There will be a total of 6 couples in the two day seminar.

Then on Friday, we have an all day interview with our adoption counselor who will begin formatting our “Parent Profile” which is essentially a 20 – 30 page dossier (their word, not mine) of our life stories, reasons for wanting to adopt, social worker’s perception of us and our home, pictures, etc. Jon and I will also have to construct a “Dear Birthmother Letter” which is essentially the first thing the birthparents see in the dossier which is our chance to “sell” ourselves to the birthparents and why we think we are the right couple to be chosen. The “Parent Profile” is what the adoption agency will then start distributing to birth parents that are looking for an adoptive couple to take their baby.  We should also find out roughly how long it will take them to put this dossier together which will tell us an approximate date of when we will be entering the pool of approved candidates ready to take a baby.  All along, Jon and I have been telling ourselves roughly November 1, but we should get a much more accurate timeline on our trip.  This means any day from the date we are approved, we could receive the call………or not receive the call of course if that is the way the cookie crumbles.