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I'm feeling very, very, very impatient today. I've been a bottle of nervous energy since we got that profiling call, but I figured I wouldn't hear anything until at least this afternoon, so it was somewhat contained. Now I'm just super itchy and irritable. I can't be zen about this one because if we do get picked, we need to head directly to Georgia ASAP. So I would hope that we'd hear today, but what if it's not until tomorrow? I'm freaking out!
It's hard to be prepared without being prepared. I'm making lists of things to remember to pack, and that's a good thing because we'd probably need it eventually anyway. Our garage sale is also in limbo. It's the neighborhood sale that we have every year. We usually do a little advertising for ourselves, as well, but we didn't bother this year because of course we could have had a situation such as this. We figure if we have to leave town, we'll just do our own garage sale later in the summer. Might not make as much as we would at this block sale, but it's better than not making anything at all, I guess.
There's a Yahoo group for Adoption STAR clients. I get the daily digest. Someone posted a few days ago asking how many times people were profiled before being picked. At times the responses are encouraging and sometimes they're discouraging. People complaining that they weren't profiled a lot admitted they weren't open to race so that made me feel a bit better. I mean, we've been profiled twice in as many weeks. But someone who is open to pretty much the same stuff we are in terms of race and health concerns said it took something like 20 profiling opportunities before they were picked. Argh! And there was also a brief discussion of someone saying one of the workers had warned them that it takes longer to place with a family that already has a child because most birth moms want to place with a childless couple. Argh!
So I'm trying to be pessimistic in order to not be very disappointed, but I really just want to know if I'm going to have a baby in two days or not.
It's hard to be prepared without being prepared. I'm making lists of things to remember to pack, and that's a good thing because we'd probably need it eventually anyway. Our garage sale is also in limbo. It's the neighborhood sale that we have every year. We usually do a little advertising for ourselves, as well, but we didn't bother this year because of course we could have had a situation such as this. We figure if we have to leave town, we'll just do our own garage sale later in the summer. Might not make as much as we would at this block sale, but it's better than not making anything at all, I guess.
There's a Yahoo group for Adoption STAR clients. I get the daily digest. Someone posted a few days ago asking how many times people were profiled before being picked. At times the responses are encouraging and sometimes they're discouraging. People complaining that they weren't profiled a lot admitted they weren't open to race so that made me feel a bit better. I mean, we've been profiled twice in as many weeks. But someone who is open to pretty much the same stuff we are in terms of race and health concerns said it took something like 20 profiling opportunities before they were picked. Argh! And there was also a brief discussion of someone saying one of the workers had warned them that it takes longer to place with a family that already has a child because most birth moms want to place with a childless couple. Argh!
So I'm trying to be pessimistic in order to not be very disappointed, but I really just want to know if I'm going to have a baby in two days or not.
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