Adoption update

Just thought I would post about the FAC(Family adoption consultants) information meeting we went to last night run by our assigned social worker, Jodi. There were 16 people in attendance, much more than I thought would come. We talked for about 2 hours. Most of the topics were about Korea. A little bit about China & the Philippians which are 2 other countries FAC can place children from. Talked about the Hague treaty and how FAC is already met the compliance's for that.

Most questions were about the wait. We all wanted to hear how long this will take. Jodi's estimate is about 1.5 years from start to finish. ~3months from initial application to formal application, ~3 months to get your home study done, ~ 6 months from study done to referral and then another ~6 months from referral to placement. Course you never know when things will slow down or speed up. Said most kids are 9-24months at time of placement and most are little boys.

There was a couple there from Columbus to come in and show their adoption scrapbooks to us and explain how their adoption went. Their son, Drew, is 2 years old and has been home for like 7 months. He was pretty impressive little guy, very talkative and playful. In Korea the children are kept in foster homes with at most 1 other child so it seemed from my untrained eye that he was fine with all his milestones which is always a concern with international adoption.

FAC knows about Dan's cancer and the treatment that will be required. They said to just keep going ahead with waiting to get to the formal application stage. From there we can just drag our feet getting all the paperwork done for the home study until Dan's doctors can say that he is in remission and can write a medical clearance for him.

I know there is a child out there somewhere for us, maybe a year from now we will have him. By the time our adoption goes through our little boy and Heather's little boy Cole should be only ~ 6months apart in age so that should be fun!