[nsanders]

Hey Lillian,

We are in the Fresno area and our 2nd adoption, 3rd child is a fost-adopt. We now have our daughter, but it took quite a while for us considering we were looking for a child older than 6, any race. We actually considered 18 months-16 throughout the wait. Single placement female child.

I might suggest going to any of the picnics organized by agencies or counties. That is how we finally met our daughter & SW's met us, too. It was in Sacramento. There were 65 kids/ 33 placement with sib groups. We met a lot of kids we liked, a couple of sib groups, but we focused on A.

BTW, we got absolutely no interest from our county. I guess it just varies. It took us 1 year from homestudy to placement. A year & 1/2 from starting classes.

Good Luck with it!