Where Are We?

Again, sorry for all the posts in one day, but we are trying to play catch up. For those of you who may not know, we sold our townhome in Beacon and moved to Gardiner, it's next to New Paltz. Well, we bought a house that needs a little work or at least we thought. Once we began demo, we kind of fell into the moment and ripped everything out, from the floors, to the kitchen and even all the bathrooms; we even decided to knock down a couple of walls. We are finally at the end of the renovations, but find ourselves in a time crunch. Part of the adoption process means that we must be interviewed by a social worker, which we already did in Beacon. I guess they want to make sure that we are or will be good responsible parents. So we cleaned our house, decluttered and even hid poor Montana (our black lab), but she's used to it. All we need to do is give her a treat and all is forgotten. So during the interview we had to pretend we never fought and that we knew what we were doing with kids, as if you have to prove that in a hospital after you give birth. Jen did great and I managed not to drool on the table, so things went well.

Anyway, since we have moved the social worker needs to inspect this house as well. So we are rushing to put things back together. We have a feeling that open light sockets and exposed wires probably aren't a good representation of good parenting. We also have a very loose railing on the second floor, probably not good to have, but the social worker won't know unless she leans on it. If she does, I suspect that we will have bigger problems then just being fit parents.

Well that's enough for now.

We received word....

This post is late since we just started our blog, but we thought we should add this information. We heard word from our agency about a month ago, end of August. We were sent information on two brothers, ages 2 and 4. Once we received all the medical records we sent them off to the adoption doctor. Sounds weird, but the purpose of the adoption doctor is to review and decipher the medical records of the children. Well, just before we were about to decide on the adoption, our agency told us that the kids were adopted by another couple. It was tough news to take. We try to stay as positive as possible hoping that we will be flying soon to Taiwan.

The second part of the story is that the agency told us that they had a few other siblings that they should be receiving medical records for, hopefully in the next couple of weeks. Well that was a month ago, so we are still anxiously waiting. It is hard for anyone to put a timetable on the adoption process because we are dealing with a different country with different rules and laws. So for now there is only silence as we wait for the phone to ring.

If anyone is interested, here is the website to our agency.

http://www.journeysoftheheart.net/