Checking in

Today I called our agency just to check in. It's been awhile since I last spoke to them when comparing it to our other adoption agency that called or emailed us once a week. Today my case worker told me that they leave all the contact up to the adoptive couple because for some of them, a weekly call with "sorry, we have nothing for you." is hard. Fair enough, makes sense. She also told me that it has been unusually slow with only 1 African American situation in the past few months. Ok, WHAT? Its NOT A SITUATION is a birth mother and her child! I was a little shocked by that statement.
We are still waiting for our fingerprints to come back. Tomorrow it will be one month. It is only supposed to take about 2 weeks. There is speculation that fingerprints are being held up due to the fact that all the Census workers have to be cleared first. Unlike our previous adoption, waiting on the fingerprints to be back does nothing to hold up our adoption process. We can still be profiled to potential birth mother's while we wait on the fingerprints. So that is a huge load off our shoulders!