Making Inquiries

So no new news, but we have been making inquiries. This part of the process is quite a bit different than the international process. Basically we search photolistings and make inquiries based on the information there. Then if requested we send our information.

On the one hand I like being able to express interest whenever we want instead of waiting for the phone call. On the other hand you have to inquire on a lot more kids and not get responses some of the time. It's just the way it works. Also instead of being the only one expressing interest at a time there could be a lot of families doing the same. A couple of the children we inquired on I was told they had received over 100 inquiries!

On the plus side we have had a couple of longer conversations with case workers, and while those were not the right match for us, it felt good to be talking about things. There were no quick decisions yes or no, just conversations about whether it was a good match.  Eventually it will happen. I have to keep reminding myself that we have only been doing this for a short time. It feels long because we were two years in the international process.