[J.Ro]

Our kids were in Texas, we're in North Carolina. We got the phone call that we'd been matched on May 27th, then we waited till we got a huge box of file information. The first phone call (can you say...underwhelming) was on June 17th. Then phone calls were more frequent, bi-weekly, always talking to the foster mom as well. Phone calls were awkard, and their foster parents had a huge tv always blaring and it was obvious when the children were more drawn to the tv than the call. That was hard, and kind of weird.

We traveled to meet them the last week of July. We rented a long-term suite and the kids came and stayed with us after meeting us at the airport. We went to their foster home for dinner one night during the stay but that was their only contact for that week. Goodbyes were hard, especially for our son, who held on tight and sobbed at the airport....ugh. The kids flew out with their cw about 10 days later and arrived on August 10th.

We continue to talk weekly to their foster mom and she's been a great help, just for sanity purposes. We really thought this was an excellent family and they were super with the transition. I had to get rid of some clothes because the kids came with so much! Not the garbage bag stories you hear.

Hope this helps, but I'll say every state is probably different.