Rough Week

We attended a match meeting this week......which didn't have not one possible match for us.

It gets kind of frustrating. The whole process is frustrating. I would consider myself a people person and someone who is easy to talk to. But everytime I attend one of these events I feel very guarded. I have no idea why! People always tell me I need to "sell" myself so I stand out so the other caseworkers remember me. I think that is just SUCH a crazy thing to do in this situation. I see other people do it.....and I just can't.

I don't ever think it will get easier and I am okay with that. Okay as in.....I get it. But it doesn't mean it will be any easier. It's an emotional roller coaster. And it won't ever stop being that until our adoption is final.

I LIVE for that day.

Inquiry update: we have been rejected on every inquiry I blogged about. As of right now we have no pending inquiries.

This week I did some email networking and sent a family profile I made to the caseworkers I had contact info on. It's a page long summary with a bunch of pictures of everyone in our immediate family. I did get one response....."you have a beautiful family!".

It was a bandaid to my heart :)

I think this post is different from all my others.  I typically don't try to get in to all the emotional details on the blog but....that's what it's for right????  I just wanna be sad when I wanna be sad.  Be pissed when I wanna be pissed.....and be happy when I can be happy.  Fact is....I'm trying to adopt.  So....I'm allowed to be able to feel different emotions and not feel bad about it.  Right now:  my mood is - going with the flow :).

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Not selected

We weren't selected for the legal risk placement and we also weren't selected for a girl we inquired about last month.

I was looking over old emails and we still have a few inquiries that we have not received updates on.

We're attending our 3rd match meeting on the 31st of this month.

Oh! And we are doing respite care for A and P from July 22nd through the 30th :) - I wish I could just keep them as my own. :-/

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First Legal Risk Broadcast

So we received our first broadcast today!! 2 yr old "J". From the information I received I can see he had a hard first couple of years. But he seems to be improving in several areas. :) I'm kinda excited about this one. He has a court date set in the 4th quarter. The goal of cps is to have the parental rights terminated since the family has had no visitation. Fingers crossed!

Today we confirmed with the respite coordinator that we will look after "A" and "P" for a whole week in July. I can't wait to see them again!! I hope they remember me :-/

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License has officially changed to Legal Risk!!!!

'Nuff said :-P

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More paperwork

Well.....we finally heard back. Our cw's supervisor gave her preliminary approval for the license change; pending some paperwork we need to sign. Everything was scanned over to them just now and she has confirmed that it was received. Now we wait (again) for the supervisors signature.

If anyone ever tells me to "be patient" - I may slap them :-D

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tick tock....

No license change yet

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Blahhh

Well I was going to update a complaint and be all sour puss about why I'm frustrated today.....BUT instead I will patiently email my cw and find out when our license will be changed. I also won't mention here that I was told it would be changed last Thursday or this past Monday. And I WON'T point out that it is now Wednesday. The End.

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