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Also Waiting
Hello to all,
I am a newbie, although I have been following along for a few months now. My husband and I began our journey to adopt in January. We have finished our classes, turned in lots of paperwork, and went through our home visits. It really hasn't been too bad. We are hoping for girls ages 0-10 so we have a crib and 2 sets of bunk beds set up. We have one 5 year old at home who is my adopted grand-daughter. I also have 3 sons from a previous marriage, but they are all grown.
We are waiting on our homestudy to be approved, but they have told us it will be and we should get a call shortly after. We are going on vacation the first week of June so we told them since it will be the middle of May before all the red tape is done we will have to wait until after June 9th to accept a placement. Up until the last few days we have been so excited about everything, but now that everything is done but the wait, we both feel down and depressed. The waiting stinks. We had really hoped to have more kids to take on vacation with us. We have even bought an 8 passenger van. We do have one question maybe some of you can help us with. So many people have advised us not to adopt a child older than our daughter. We are hoping to adopt 4 girls, so that would mean we would have 5 little ones. We both work, although I am going back to work in the fall as a special ed teacher so I will be off a lot. My husband is a nurse and also has lots of sick day, vacation days, etc. Thanks in advance for your help.
Sylvia
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