A Baby Step Forward

So we finally got fed up and decided to be the squeeky wheel to our social worker again. We try really hard not to bother her when we don't need to, but I (Emily) usually get impatient and end up phoning or emailing her for an update. The agency blog has not been updated since January 4th, which has been killing me. I kindly asked our social worker if she'd heard of any referrals and she said that she knows another Indiana family is getting a referral this week. She was not sure if that was the only one the agency received or not. Apparently the branch offices only find out of their own referrals. The main office doesn't notify them of referrals for other states. They supposedly find out through the blog like the rest of us (which means they don't know seeing as the blog is hardly updated these days). Anyway, to my knowledge there was only one 2006 Indiana family still waiting. They had an approval date of August 06. I know that there was a May 06 family in Michigan still waiting too, so I am kind of assuming that if the August family has their referral that the May family probably does as well. If so, then things appear to be moving once again! Hurray :)

January has been a hard month of waiting for us. After the holidays it was just sort of a let down to not see any action for the first 25 days of the month. Hopefully everyone will get back to work and get these babies to their new families! Sadly, at least for us, it is the Lunar New Year celebration season in Korea soon, so they will likely be away from the office even more.

We'll get there eventually...