When people say that in adoption you often "hurry up and wait," they are not kidding. As we go through two adoptions at the same time, I constantly feel like all we are doing is waiting for things to happen. All of our workers are moving as fast as they can, but there are a lot of steps involved, especially given that these are out-of-state adoptions.
Yesterday, we had a dependency hearing for Alex's adoption. These hearings happen every few months, and they are a chance for all parties involved to give updates on how the process is going. Thankfully, we do not have to attend the hearings in person. Technology allows us to attend via telephone. While there was not a lot discussed yesterday, we did get a few updates.
The workers involved do not believe that we will be able to finalize in the next six months. There is a lot of paperwork that still needs to be completed. Some of you know that we had hoped to complete his adoption in early spring next year, so this was a little disappointing to hear. The judge stated that the adoption needed to be completed by November 1, 2015 (I'm still hoping it will happen much, much sooner). We will need to provide Arizona with an updated home study. We have a current home study for Jake's adoption, so it would be great if they would accept that instead of making us go through it again. I'm not sure I have it in me to have yet another home study done. If we need to do it again, that would be our fourth one since 2010.
We will have another hearing in April, which will hopefully be one of the last ones. I'll be sure to keep you posted on what is happening. For now, we will just continue with our monthly home visits.
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