So the ball is rolling on our second adoption.
Is it easier the second time around? Yes and no. We are doing a different adoption, although the child might come from the UN Unaccompanied Minor Refugee program, it is processed as a foster care adoption.
For Gabika's adoption, I felt righteously indignant when numerous phone calls and e-mails were not returned by the home study agency- after all, we were paying them a lot of money. Since this adoption is processed through foster care the fees associated are significantly lower and the social worker isn't working for us, but rather for the agency the social worker has little incentive to cooperate. (One might say that finding a child a loving, permanent home is an incentive...)
"Patience is a virtue" is a mantra I frequently repeat to Gabika, now I must live by as well. After the initial meeting, the social worker asked us to meet him at their office at 8am later that week to pick up our packet of paperwork. We showed up to a locked building- literally not one employee had shown up to work that morning. After numerous phone calls, we were able to get him on the line. Very apologetic, he said he could drop the packet off at our house later that week. 2 weeks later, still no packet- he e-mails me a packet. Why we had to take off work and school to go to the office in the first place if the packet could simply be e-mailed is a question better left unasked. That the packet was incomplete is a whole other issue.
Yes, the ball is rolling on our second adoption, but it might be rolling up hill.
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