This weekend was a big weekend for Tim and I! We attended a seminar with Adoption Support Center on Saturday morning. Julie, the director, gave LOTS of info about all aspects of adoption...pros and cons of domestic and international adoption, birthparent point of views, financial considerations and much more. I really want to adopt domestically because of my experience with being able to connect with my birthfather's family and have access to my medical history. As we listened to the seminar, we realized that a domestic adoption might be a longer wait for us because of our age and that we've been married less than 2 years and that I've been married before. They were saying couples our age have an average wait of 18 months...18months? Ugh! After the seminar, we spoke with Lindsay, one of the ASC staff members who was so nice. She said she didn't think it would be that long because we look younger than we are (thank goodness!) and that we are open to lots of ages and races as well as to open adoption. She said very few couples are willing to consider an open adoption and, in fact, they have only 1 couple they are working with right now that would consider an open adoption. Talking to her made me feel more optimisic about our chances. So, what's next? We need to call Tuesday afternoon to make an appointment for our office interview and for a full day Friday seminar. The Friday seminars are only held once a month. They said Feb. is full and March is half full so I'm hoping we can get in the March one. Everyone says adoption is a game of hurry up and wait and I'm already understanding what they mean. :-)
Other news this weekend is that we bought our first piece of baby furniture! A lady on a local webboard was selling a glider for $30. We drove to the south side of Indy after the seminar and having lunch with some new friends to pick up the chair. Yeah! I don't know if I'll keep it or not but it was too good of a deal to pass up!
Last Thursday was the first meeting of the Adopting and Adoptive Moms Bunco group that I've formed. It was such an amazing night! 9 of us got together and had such a good time. The group has women with all different connections to adoption. Some are just starting, some are waiting to adopt, some have adopted domestically and some internationally....it's a great mix. We spend 2 1/2 hours just sharing our stories of how we can to have adoption as part of our lives. Lots of tears and support were shared which I think has made for the beginning of a great group of friendships. Hopefully next time, we'll actually start playing Bunco! :-)
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