Heard from Two Agencies Today

As you know, while we await an action plan from our current adoption agency, I have been dilligently seeking information on other agencies. I have left several voice mails and sent emails trying to get information on two agencies in particular. Additionally, I have scoured the yahoo message boards I belong to for any reference to these agencies and contacted those adopting through them. This is definitely deja vu, and as before, my brain is mush.

I found out oddly enough that one of the agencies has its own yahoo group and that I had joined as a member when we were doing our initial research. So I gleefully signed in and found a wealth of very detailed information on the agency and its procedures.

I received a package in the mail this afternoon from one agency and an email from the other whose rep will try to call me tomorrow. The latter's package states that we must use their forms exactly for our dossier, which would mean we need to redo our medical, employment, and financial statements, among other things. That was a bummer, until I got the email and she said we may be able to pay a translation fee and use some of our documents. Also, as I understand their requirements, our dossier documents are not due until just before our referral....which would mean we could turn in our initial documents, get our homestudy reviewed and changed and get in line for Kaylee before having to fix all the other documents.

Hopefully we'll be able to make a decision soon and keep on moving toward our daughter.