Last week my home study was updated and I met my new case worker. I really liked her and she seemed to like me a lot. She was very complimentary about all I've done and said she wants to get me a baby. I told her how disappointing the last year has been. We talked a lot about my experience with foster care. I do feel like she has a better grip on children than my last case worker. I also told her I chose KCSL because of the communication and since the last caseworker quit the communication has been lacking. Hopefully it will increase.
I have also tried to reach out to a maternity home in Wichita--only to be told I need to attend an informational meeting. They are going to have another one in November - exactly when I can't go. They basically work with birth mothers and then the adoption still goes through the agencies or a lawyer. I told my caseworker about the place and thought it might be a good outreach for them. I'm a little frustrated that the maternity home won't consider working with me now. Their face book page said they still had 3 mothers with no matches (including a set of twins- which yes I still would gladly take) I dropped off some clothes at this maternity place and talked to the lady who ran it, but it was a very brief conversation. She did tell me KCSL had reached out to them in the past week so I guess I did influence that.
So it's still a waiting game. I'm now going on 3 1/2 years since I started the process to adopt. And in the meantime everyone around me is pregnant or having babies... while they are adorable- it's a little sad for me.
Hopefully this will be my year---though I'm trying hard not to focus on it. My job currently is keeping me very busy and I'm trying to focus on that.
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