[HappyMomAnna]

yes, that is a fact there are 12 little faces and names I fell in love with.......and will never forget!

As for the polite push... things we did:

1) after hours we left short and sweet voice messages just saying "have you heard anything about this kid or that one, just wondering I know you would call if you had....but, I feel so helpless.
2) We sent Thank You notes ever now and then saying we were waiting and were glad these people did this job, it sure must be hard...
3) We asked a silly question here or ther real quick---like, In the photo listings should we be concerned if it says blah,blah"
4) We registered with Adoption Network for the national list of Waiting children and our caseworker had to send our homestudy out....because you can adopt from anyplace.
5) You caseworkers office may have a lending library and we made sure to show up at ours and "bump" into our worker on his way home...and smiled.
6) Anytime we took a class, or made a change like when we got a ladder for a fire emergency in our home, we called and asked him to update our file....showing we have done onemore thing.
7) email--we sent a hi note every few weeks and asked if there were any new listing of children...
8) When it felt real slow we called and asked if we could look at ALL the kids listed again....maybe we didn't see everyone, you know it is alot to look at the first time.... and reading all the bullitiens takes time...
9) We just made ourselves a plasant pain in the rear....and it also helped because our worker knew us even better by the time we were really into committee...
10) If your office has support groups go to them and tell your worker that you have...
11) tell your worker you found this awesome website...

you know how to be a pleasant irritation don't you?