Interview

We decided on our our agency! 

We went to our LA's open evening and we both absolutely hated it. There were lots of reasons for it, mainly the fact that they didn't seem like they wanted to offer any additional support post adoption. 

The words 'obligated' and 'obligation' were used easily 40 times in the couple of hours we were there. It really put us off. Our overall impression of them was awful, they seem to treat it like a business and made us feel like we would be queuing up in Argos waiting to see our children. Awful experience.

It was so far from what we want to have that we've said that we really want to move before our 3 years post adoption is up just so we can avoid having to deal with them if the time ever comes.

Anyway, after that we made the definite decision that agency number one is the one for us. They're just better for us, they really are pretty much exactly what we said we wanted and so much more!

We had the self assessment form in a email ready to be filled in so as soon as we got home from the LA meeting, we got straight on it. We decided that we'd send it first thing in the morning just in case someone had left their email on or something daft.

The next morning came and we sent it after having some minor issues with emails on the macbook. A few minutes later though, i realised that it had been sent from an email address that i set up as a teen....a really silly and embarrassing email address. 

After a few emails back and forth I made sure that they had the real email address, much to the amusement of the staff i'm sure! As it turned out, the person who needed to look at the form was on annual leave so we wouldn't hear back until Monday at earliest.

To cut a long story short, Monday came and we booked our phone interview for this morning with a social worker.

The call went really well, she asked us about our childhoods and asked some additional questions about bits on the form. She also told us about workshop dates... we've taken this as a very good sign!!

Just have to wait until next week now to hear back from the manager....we're feeling hopeful though!

The time is now....

For 10 years we've discussed having a family. 10 whole years.

When we were trying to conceive things were frustrating more than anything, constantly having to trust someone else to keep to their word and be reliable so that we might achieve our dream of becoming parents.

This is very different. I'm so excited and looking forward to the end result but suddenly i am very nervous.

We're submitting our application in the next 24 hours and i think that has made it all a little more real than it was last week.

Suddenly we're actually taking real steps towards parenthood.

Suddenly our adoption journey is actually beginning.

We could be less than a year from being Mummy and Mommy.

I'm a big bundle of nervous energy at the minute!