Five weeks to go!

It’s five weeks until we go to matching panel and I really wish it was tomorrow. Now that we know much more about boy H and we’ve met his foster carer, we just can’t wait. We’re finding it very hard to concentrate at work, and I’m also struggling with the fact that I haven’t told most of my colleagues. Today we had a meeting in the office to plan our activities for the latter part of this year and I really felt bad talking about my contribution when if all goes to plan I will actually be on adoption leave.

We’ve been so careful so far never to buy anything for when a child lives with us, as we didn’t want to get carried away or take things for granted, but today we actually spent several hundred pounds on furniture to go into Boy H’s room. I know we really should have waited until panel, but unfortunately there is normally a few weeks’ wait for furniture delivery, and if things go to plan we won’t have many weeks from panel to needing to take a picture of the bedroom for the introduction book, so we thought “what the hell” and just went ahead and ordered it all. It really is madness to buy furniture so that you can take a picture of it, and of course if things don’t go to plan we’ll have this furnished room that will feel quite eerie and only remind us of what might have been, but we’re thinking positively and going with the thought that panel will say yes. We can’t do everything in the last minute! That’s our excuse anyway. : )