I talked to our adoption attorney last week. We've had a profile with his office since March of this year, so for 5 months now. Unfortunately it has not been shown to any potential firstmoms. We would really only be shown in a situation where a firstmom was not already set up with a family. They did have a possible situation last weekend but this mom decided to parent. We knew that his office was a fairly small operation and there was a chance we wouldn't get much exposure. So now we have decided to also work with a local agency. Throughout the year we had looked at several agencies both local and national. I was referred to this particular agency twice and have met people who have used them and been happy. I sent in the application a couple of weeks ago in order to get into the September orientation meeting and we should be sending in the contract this week. We have decided to go into the African American/Biracial infant program. One of the many things we've learned since we first started investigating adoption is that the need for homes for African American or Biracial infants is much greater than the need for Caucasian infants. After a lot of careful consideration and learning about parenting a multiracial family, we decided this is the right path for us. Matching times are often faster with this program than with Caucasian infant programs. I guess we'll just consider ourselves beneficiaries of an imperfect system.
On Saturday we received our completed homestudy to send on to our attorney and agency. One more step done! Today I happened to drive by the Volunteers of America Thrift Store in Clintonville. I'd heard it was a great store so I stopped in and they had a ton of kids clothes. I picked up a few more gender neutral onesies. After we find out the gender of the baby, I'll go back and see what else I can find.
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