We had our foster-to-adopt orientation last night...

if anyone wants to read about it, I'm putting all the updates on my adoption blog www.hoffmanfamilyjourney.blogspot.com.

Hi Abba. We had our orientation last night and it went really well. I had only been expecting just a few couples to be there, but I bet there were about 50 people there. The coordinator had said that it was the biggest group that they've ever had. The people that run the agency seem so great and I look forward to getting to know the other couples while going through training this month. The whole process from start to finish takes about 2-3 months. We were looking through our packets and at some of the questionnaires that we have to fill out and some of the questions I had never even given any thought to before and I told Andy that some of these questions are so hard to answer as I had never really thought about it. They really do delve into all areas of your life. They want to know everything. I joked that if everyone had to do this just to have a baby, the populations would be so much smaller. But seriously, I do understand why they need to know this stuff...they need to know that these kids are in good, safe, and stable environments. I just pray for discernment for us when answering these questions as they aren't easy answer questions...you really do have to sit and think about some of them.

Our training starts this Saturday and we have a list of stuff that we need to get together and such and all the paperwork is going to keep us quite busy as well. Training is on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays once that gets going all this month. This Saturday is the first one. I'm excited and I think we've finally stumbled onto the right path. Things are going to start moving along now. :-)