Adoption Update # 2

During the winter holidays, we received a general e-mail from our agency indicating that they are hoping to do about 60 adoptions (35 boys, 25 girls) in 2008. They also mentioned that although they currently have 25 dossiers in Vietnam for girls (so obviously they have already reached their max for the year), for boys there are fewer waiting files. Alex and I read this a few times. Were we reading right? So we called the agency and left a few messages. Well today I decided to follow up and we are finally on the primary list. We were told to get our homestudy update done immediately and that if all goes well, we should see a proposal by as early as the end of this year. Part of me wants to jump up and down but looking back on our past experience, this type of info is volatile. The Ontario ministry also increased the requirements to get approved so we really do have a long way to go and it's way too early to get excited. We have our first homestudy update meeting with on social worker next week so we'll have to see how that goes. In the meantime, I'm trying to refocus my energies on other things and to keep moving with life.