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So, good news today! The adoption agency has our application, and has assigned us a counselor. Intake interview will be scheduled soon. Assuming that goes through well, then we start the home study process.
This is, however, still the very early beginning of this process, so I figured I may as well lay out a timeline of how this whole thing works, so folks unfamiliar with adoption (or adoptions of this kind) can get an idea of what's likely to happen when. The short answer: we're probably still at least 12-18 months out from having a kid in the house.
( The long answer )
So, yeah. Getting initially qualified is the hard/scary part, and that's why it's exciting to get over those hurdles. But then it's just endlessly waiting around. So once we're in the pool, we're unlikely to be sending out new baby announcements for quite a while.
This is, however, still the very early beginning of this process, so I figured I may as well lay out a timeline of how this whole thing works, so folks unfamiliar with adoption (or adoptions of this kind) can get an idea of what's likely to happen when. The short answer: we're probably still at least 12-18 months out from having a kid in the house.
( The long answer )
So, yeah. Getting initially qualified is the hard/scary part, and that's why it's exciting to get over those hurdles. But then it's just endlessly waiting around. So once we're in the pool, we're unlikely to be sending out new baby announcements for quite a while.
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