How Long?

Teddi, you are too cute! :D As you well know, I can offer NO info on the wait time (because you're a few steps ahead of me) but I just wanted to say I'm totally praying for a swift and permanent placement for you and Steve. :) As far as the twins... you're wanting under a year, right? Like newborn? Or how old are you willing to consider?

Thank you for the prayers! I appreciate them soooo much & I'm praying for you two as well :) As far as the twins, I really want newborns! I've thought about it so much & I honestly think I just have to wait for the phone calls to come in. My dream placement would be newborn twin boys and a girl 5-7yrs. However, if there were 2 boys that were both under 2, I think I would strongly consider it. But, I also don't want to jump at the 1st one that comes in & then find out that if I'd waited just a little longer, I could've gotten my twin boys. Its such a hard call!

I sent you a PM. :)

No experience with Riverside yet since we're still waiting to be licensed. But I would think that you would only get calls during business hours unless you are open to immediate placements. But I'm sure you'll still jump every time the phone rings. :o

@Bellesmama.. are you going through Riverside County? Did you already complete your home study? I think your name sounds familiar but I don't know your story/timeline. Are you adopting or fostering? I LOVE finding people here from our county! :D

We are in Riverside county but we're stuck with a paperwork issue with an out of state clearance. We are looking at fostering and then adopting. So both but well who knows. Whatever comes our way really. :-)

I am still waiting for that first call to meet a child. It has been 3 years. I got approved for my 3rd homestudy. I am looking for a child from birth- 18 months. Now I am looking to age 4 years. I am in sac. ca. Sometimes I get discourage but I have to pray and I hope there is a child out there for me.

Schip I am so amazed you have been waiting so long. We live in the same county. Are you with the county or an agency? Do you know if your homestudy is being shown? On the other hand, I suppose 18 months and legal risk might be hard to find. I bet it must be so hard to wait. While I don't know what waiting so long is like, my heart breaks for you. PM me if you want to chat

Sorry this is off topic but Wishing, How long was your appeal period? I have heard so many different times. I was told it was 90 for ours?

Patiently, the appeal period was 60 days. But they give an extra "it got lost in the mail week" before they officially act as though the appeal period is over so I say the appeal period is like 70 days. You can PM me if you want to discuss.

We were approved before the housing bust. It took 3 mo for infant placement. The phone call came to the home at 9 p.m. Congrats to me, "It's a girl." Fast forward 4 years later . . . We are now waiting for second placement. We finally got one call to husband's cell phone 11 months later. We weren't quick enough to say yes . . . had to think about it for a couple hours. When we called back, placement went to someone else. It's now been one year and we're waiting, waiting, waiting. I am so ready for the call and so paranoid we won't answer one of the numbers. It's odd. We went to a training session to update our hours. We spoke to one of the social workers about the wait time. She said a couple months ago, they had a relinquishment and couldn't find any waiting families home that weekend to take the call; baby went to emergency foster placement instead. It's odd because we never got a missed call that we know about . . . I'm wondering if they bother leaving messages. I can't keep my phone on during certain working hours, and husband is so busy, he misses calls a lot, and home is large and calls sometimes go to voice mail before we can grab the phone. It's frustrating, because I don't know if they are even going to try to call . . .

I waited for 3 years. I finally got the call. I picked up a 3 week old little girl at the receiving home. It is an emergency placement for now. But, I will know next week if and what is going on. She is now 1 month old and doing great. I almost gave up... But, I kept hoping. Thank you all, for helping me get through this waiting period. :clap: :paci: :thanks:

Oh my gosh, schip, that is awesome!!!! Congratulations, how exciting!!!! :)

Hi. Do you already have little ones in your home? Your tag shows 18 mo and 7 month old waiting for services. Anyway, update to my last post. We have received more calls, but one match went to another home and one we passed on at the SW's recommendation. It was odd. It's like as if they gave us a courtesy call but talked us out of it and told us to just wait. Anyway, we might be matched soon with a baby under 6 months, pending a hearing. We are crossing fingers. It's been about 14 months and counting . . .

On Sept 1, we were placed with 2 little boys. Hoping to have services terminated on Dec 15 with adoption finalizing sometime next summer.