{"id":3325,"date":"2014-05-30T10:10:19","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T14:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/?p=3325"},"modified":"2014-05-30T10:10:19","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T14:10:19","slug":"moving-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/?p=3325","title":{"rendered":"Moving Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ballerina\"I spoke to both TH and CW<\/a> last night about Ballerina<\/a>. We have our 3rd<\/sup> play date on Sunday, but aside from picking up the pottery, not sure yet. We\u2019re going to come up with some ideas and see what she wants to do.<\/p>\n

CW said everything sounded great \u2013 she had also spoken to\u00a0TH \u2013 and I told her we are ready to move forward towards adopting Ballerina.<\/p>\n

!!!!!!!<\/p>\n

Husband and I have been non-stop discussing everything involved and feel good about our decision. There is uncertainty not really knowing how Ballerina is feeling about us, but aside from \u201ctime\u201d we don\u2019t know how else to truly know. TH says she\u2019s happy and excited, but we want to hear it from<\/em> her. Does that make sense? We know they talk a lot and she trusts him, but we\u2019ll be her parents and we hope that she will open up to us more about our combined future.<\/p>\n

We are still making assumptions about her based on being a teenager, super shy, scared of rejection, etc, etc, etc and none of them are really fair. We cannot generalize how we think she feels when she is a totally unique kid. I mean, if she turns out being the kind of teenager I was, we are golden. However, if she\u2019s like my best friend, well, we\u2019re in trouble. (Love you, my Zeffer!)<\/p>\n

A-N-Y-W-A-Y… back to the CW\u2019s call. She said we should do a few more weekends of supervised visits. It will take her a few weeks to get the paperwork done and approved for us to have unsupervised visits anyhow. Then she asked me if I could help her get a copy of our signed home study<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Um, what?<\/p>\n

I thought we were the only ones that didn\u2019t have it! Silly me, I thought when we were told our home study had been sent to Our Kids<\/a>, that it meant the completed and signed one. She said without the signature, we cannot move forward as she can\u2019t submit the unsigned one to the judge.<\/p>\n

Grrrrr!<\/p>\n

So this morning I sent off a very nice email requesting for FRC to please send the signed home study to CW as we had been matched and would like to move forward. And 3 minutes later received emails saying both our ACW and her supervisor were out of the office until next Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Patience is SO not a virtue that I willingly possess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I spoke to both TH and CW last night about Ballerina. We have our 3rd play date on Sunday, but aside from picking up the pottery, not sure yet. We\u2019re going to come up with some ideas and see what she wants to do. CW said everything sounded great \u2013 she had also spoken to\u00a0TH […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,100,29,38,59,62,64,68,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acw","category-adoption","category-ballerina","category-foster-adoption","category-home-study","category-my-child","category-other-agencies","category-paperwork","category-play-dates","category-timeline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}