Hurry Up and Wait

GuestBlogger — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:00:11 -0500

Our guestblogger today is Susan Metters (aka, Snafu Suz), a 40-something writer, cancer survivor, and aspiring mom. She and her husband are currently approved to adopt and are waiting to be matched with a sibling group of 2 or 3 through the foster system. They are first-time parents, and a little bit crazy. They have adopted several fur-kids in their 13-year marriage and decided it was time to adopt some of the human variety. They share a home on wooded acreage in the Pacific Northwest with their two old, beloved, shelter dogs. You can read about Susan’s life adventures by visiting her two Seattle PI blogs: Lemon Margaritas and Adoption Adventures. Her adoption blog can also be found at SeattleMomBlogs.com.

We're in that part of the adoption process where we're just waiting. All the paperwork, interviews and classes are done. We're approved now and just waiting for a kiddo or two (or three).

When we were doing our paperwork and classes we tried to plow through it as quickly as we could. I had surgery in the middle of it all which slowed us down, but we tried to plug away at it consistently. From the time we sent in our application to the time we got approved was about 5-months.

I know that may not sound very fast, but as every adoptive parent knows the amount of stuff we had to do was pretty monumental. We were also limited by class availability and our social worker's schedule. It took her 6-weeks just to write up our home study report! After reading the report I realized what a huge task that was. When I think about it all, it's no wonder it took 5-months.