A long conversation with Barbara

Barbara called this morning. She stayed in the office until 9:00 last night, working on a new system for us. She says that we've expressed interest in so many more children than her usual families that her previous organizational system just wasn't working. She developed a whole new one for us. All I can say is, "It's about time."

We went through every child that we've expressed interest in but has not been resolved in some way, either through the child's case worker or us saying no at some point. She had an adoption child summary that had not been sent our way yet to give us. She also had three children we were interested in that did not make the list she created last night. One of which is Kamau. Two others are kids we've expressed interest in but she didn't have in her file. One of those two was Megon, who I suspect is placed anyway.

The good news is that we were put in for Savanna, after all. She just hadn't done the follow up with the worker when we expressed our serious interest. The situation with Savanna (gleaned from a voice mail recording specifically regarding Savanna due to the high interest) is that 10 families have been picked out of all who've applied for her. Out of those 10, the case worker will narrow the field down to 3. We do not know if we're one of those 10, but we do know that we were amongst those considered.

Colin's adoption child summary was the one that Barbara had, but hadn't gotten to us yet.

In other Oregon Waiting Children web site news, Robert has shown up and he is one of "ours".

Also, we received new information on Thorn. Thorn is a child who's case worker asked us to take a look at him. At the time, we felt unsure, but a new evaluation was to be done. Today, I picked up the new evaluation information and I'm interested in moving forward with Thorn. I haven't spoken with Anthony yet, though, to get his take, so it's not a for sure thing.

And, drum roll, please.....we got a committee date for Zach and Kohl! It's not as soon as I'd anticipated, given the situation and what we were told about moving forward quickly, but it is sooner than most committees would be scheduled for. It's on July 11th in the morning.

An interesting statistic. Barbara discovered that we've indicated interest in 35 children (or sibling sets) since being paper ready in November of 2005. That's a lot of kids. One wonders why one of them hasn't worked out yet. Perhaps, though, the time is soon.