We finally got a call from our social worker, Stacey. She seems really cool, and very energetic and positive, and easy to talk to. It was weird to speak to someone who likes her job so much. An alien concept to most people I know. It just spilled out from her, over the phone. What a freak. Ha, ha, I keed, I keed. Stacey herself has two adult children who were adopted from Korea, which is also really awesome. Who better to step families through this process than someone who has been there first hand?
Anyway, she said her schedule was filling up, so we made the appointments for early December, two mornings, and we'll have to take a few hours off work. The first session should be about 2 hours, and I think she is mostly going to look at our house, and not really delve too deeply into, well, us. The second session should be about 3 hours, and that's where we'll go over those giant essays we wrote and anything else she wants to ask us, and all of this will depend on how many questions we have for her, and how much info she can get from us. I also found out she likes dogs, which is good.
The other information she gave me dealt with time frames. She said with the holidays and everything, we could assume she would be done writing our homestudy in January and it would then be sent to Korea. Based on current wait times, it would be another 12 to 13 months for a match/referral. That means it will be about a year from the time our file goes to Korea to which we are matched with a baby. If you are keeping track, that's January/February 2010. Then, it's another 4 or 5 months for the baby to come home. She said we'd be safe telling our family and friends not to expect anything before SUMMER 2010. She kept trying to tell me it wasn't such a long time, and it would go fast, which was funny to me because I hadn't expressed anything about the long time-frame. It's really okay by me. So there you have it. But keep in mind, anything can happen.
