One step closer!

Under certain circumstances I refuse to let the grass grow under my feet, and this process is one of those circumstances.  At prep group we were told that we would find out who our social worker was by Friday.  Having not heard anything mid Friday afternoon I took it upon myself to make the call and was greeted with the brilliant news that we had been allocated our social.  Unfortunately she'd been on annual leave which is probably the reason they hadn't been in touch.

When the social worker (let's call them 'G') gets in touch we'll get together to review the prep group and look ahead to the long assessment period that sits in front of us.  The assessment always has the reputation of being like an interrogation from a black and white war movie.  Is this really what it's going to be like?  I hope not but only time will tell.

We now have an email contact group for the members of the prep group, somewhat like an on-line NCT group.  It'll be really interesting to hear about everyone's progress.

Each milestone in this journey just makes everything feel more real and means we really could be parents fairly soon.  It's funny how things change, at the moment the TV programmes we are watching are 'One Born Every Minute' (although thank god neither one of us will have to give birth, and 'Protecting Our Children' which is about a team of child care social workers.  A new programme called 'Daddy Day Car' starts this week.  I'll be watching that with a notepad!!