When the time comes, it will move quickly...

So right off the bat, there is no new news. Still just waiting. However, shortly after posting my last entry we got a phone call from our social worker Melissa from the Gladney Center. She was just calling to check up on us and to remind us that she hadn't forgotten about us and that we shouldn't get down or frustrated because there is no movement. She pleasantly reminded us that they are working through several couples that have been waiting for decent amount of time and that she would be able to start showing our profile soon. So it is worth noting to you guys that we will know when our profile is being shown to a birth mother. Even though our profile has been finished for a while it still has not been shown to any birth mothers. Anytime our profile will be shown, Melissa will let us know the situation. She also continued to remind us that once that time comes, the process can move very very quickly. The extreme situation could be that we get a phone call that a mother has given birth, she decided not to keep the child, she fits our criteria and has decided that she wants us to adopt her child. Then a week later we are back in Virginia and are new parents. Odds are it won't happen that way, but the point is it could happen very quickly. The most likely scenario is that we will get a phone call that a birth mother is looking at our profile, she decides that we may fit what she is looking for in an adoptive parents and wants to talk with us. Several conversations later over a coupla weeks she decides that we are the adoptive parents she wants to adopt her child. A coupla months later, after she gives birth, we fly down to Texas, do some legal stuff, live out of a hotel for at least a week with a new born while all the legal stuff gets settled, and with a little luck, be able to fly home with our new born. I guess the point is, we won't have a nine month waiting period to bring home our new born, it will be more like a two-eight week notice. So while the average may be a year, it doesn't mean the process will take a year. So when the time comes, it will move quickly...

Topics to come but haven't had the time to post yet:
* Politically Correct Adoption terms. "Do you know your child's real parents?", is a bad thing to say.
* Sue Kimbal- Infant CPR instructor extraordinaire.