Home study…check!

So yeah, it turns out the visit I mentioned in my last post was in fact our home study.  And now that I think about it, it’s probably for the best that I didn’t know beforehand.  I think it helped reduce the anxiety for what turned out to be a pretty pleasant experience anyway.  Yes, [...]

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Group time (May ’09)

Man, this year is already flying by.  I can still remember watching Kathy Griffin hurl epithets at New Year’s Eve partygoers on CNN, and now it’s almost Memorial Day!  Anyway… Some good progress has been made by a few of the other couples in the group, which is nice to see.  For our part, we [...]

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Quick update

No news of major import to share right now, but we did receive our thick Packet O’ Papers from Family Options at the end of the week.  So now we will start filling all that out…

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And it’s away…

So I guess it’s official now – we filled out the application for Family Options over the weekend and it went out with today’s mail.  It was pretty easy too, just a few pages of basic info, directions to our place, and a picture of the two of us.  Oh yeah, and the check.  Anyway, [...]

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Decision time

We braved the NJ snow yesterday afternoon to keep our scheduled meeting with Family Options, the third and last agency we planned to talk to.  I originally expected that afterward we would huddle up and start working on our pros and cons list, but we didn’t even get that far.   We liked what we heard [...]

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Quick agency update

We’re now penciled in to meet with our third and last agency, Family Options out of Red Bank, next Tuesday.  We’re forgoing the group info session for a private one, both to get information more tailored for us and to keep the process moving along (the group session isn’t until the middle of February).  It [...]

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Pros and cons

A few evenings ago we journeyed down to Cherry Hill for an informational group meeting held at one of our agency candidates, Adoptions From the Heart.  It’s the second agency we’ve gotten information from and the first we’ve visited.  They seem to be a pretty good choice, although as with any agency there’s always pros [...]

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