Our Journey

We are excited to hear that people in our agency's group that trained with us are going to panel, and some couples have already been approved. It is really exciting and makes our time seem just around the corner!

It has been nice to have some normal life back. We have had no meetings, no pressing forms to fill in and no to-do lists for a couple of weeks since finishing our home study, and are liking it! We have had a draft of our final report to look at, to check we are OK with what the social worker has written, but apart from that we are in waiting mode. We have visited friends, kept working hard and even enjoyed a bit of sun (only here at home, no where exotic!) We are finding our more about Peru, and thinking a lot about the time we will spend there. It is exciting but there are a lot of questions. We are planning to learn some Spanish, but as Catherine has some Portuguese we hope it wont be too tricky! (at least for one of us!) Joining an online group has been great, because it means we can chat to other families adopting from Peru with much more experience than us. We have found out so much. The inter country adoption world is quite small, particularly in the UK, and it seems that no question is too big or small! Everyone is so willing to help, it is very reassuring. I am sure others have found the same.

Need to check the last bit of the report and e-mail it back so that it gets to our agency on time. At least this process has improved my organisation skills!! Thanks all,