Step One: Attend a Compulsory Adoption Information Session...

'The Next Step' landed on our doorstep just a few days ago despite the promised next day postal delivery of this information from the council from our initial phone conversation which was over three weeks ago!  Why we are suprised at this slowness when it took 3 months before our enquiry was even answered I have no idea!! It seems this is to be a waiting game.   A test of our metal maybe!  Am sure they know new wannabe adoptive parents are terrified of causing a fuss in case they decide we're not suitable because we are impatient but still..... trouble is we are impatient!  How can we help that after two years of fertility treatments and disappointing, emotionally shattering bad news.  We want desperately to be parents and this new road is long with many twists and turns in it to be taken.  However, we will do our utmost to show our impatience is non-existant and we are actually perfect.  No flaws.  Becoming a Domestic Goddess has never been more important!

So, we now know we must attend a Compulsory Adoption Information Session before we can move forward and be allocated a social worker and finally get our first proper home visit to showcase just how damn perfect we really are!  Just to make things ultra difficult for us, we have a choice of 3 of these sessions we can attend.  Chippenham, 16th August 6.30pm until 9.30pm.  Trowbridge 16th October.  Salisbury sometime in December.  Obviously our choice will be 16th August; our impatience dictates that we need to be on the programme as soon as possible.  We also need to prove we are very keen.  No problem.  Breath.  Chippenham?  Do they know how far away that is from where we live?  Do they know that 6.30pm to 9.30pm is quite possibly the most awkward of times possible.  Yes, of course they do.  Let's not make it easy for the Lupi-Lawrences, they have not quite had it hard enough yet.  Honestly.

Like I said, this road is a long winding one.  We'll go and be perfect and hide our annoyance that making us drive 2 hours across the county after work, sit in a 3 hour loaded information session, drive 2 hours home is no sweat.  In truth, it is no sweat if we think of the end dream....our very own little miracle.  We hope. xxx