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The calls I've gotten have all been during regular work hours.
If your s/w says you would only be called after being selected, then I imagine you can trust that, sounds like the s/w does the decision about who to submit you for.
My s/w gives my name to the caseworker, who then calls me and tells me a bit about the child. I ask for therapist and foster parent phone numbers and call them (or one time the therapist required actually having a meeting with me and the adoption caseworker instead of a phone call). Then if I am still interested, I'd be submitted along with the other interested families and some committee would choose.
They skip the committee sometimes. I've had two placements. The first one supposedly another family was interested too, but the caseworker and my social worker always spoke/acted like it was a sure thing that the girl would be placed with me, and she was, I never heard whether the other family dropped out or what.
There was one time that there were 30 families who had submitted homestudies for two little boys (I'm not sure how many were interested in each boy, the siblings were being split up), but I didn't pursue that one after all.
My next placement there was no mention of any committee or any other interested families. I don't think the child was 'advertised' to anyone else, she had to be moved quickly and so they called me, I said 'yes', and she came a couple days later.
My most recent call was for a child that they had identified 3 other interested families, if I had been interested I would have made a fourth. They were hoping to find a local placement for her, some (or all) of the interested families were out of state. The case was going to committee one week later.
I think you can safely relax on weekends. And for that matter you can relax during the week too, assuming you have an answering machine that people can leave a message on.
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