I've cooled my jets

Thank you for the responses to the previous post, we did get some feedback from Suzanne that helped. She noticed that the kids that were already placed and those that don't want to be adopted were definitely not listed on the public version of MNadopt. Most likely they are only on the private version (the one that Suzanne and her counterparts have access to) for legal reasons. Even if they claim they don't want to be adopted, there is a legal requirement that their information be made public. And those that have recently been placed, or are still in the process of being placed but have a family chosen are only on the private version. These are things she hadn't realized, so we all learned something there.
Our foster care license came in the mail today, yay!
We are wondering if we want to consider adopting just one child now and another one or two down the road (they require a minimum of 1 year between adoptions). We did ask Suzanne and the process for a 2nd adoption is abbreviated quite a bit. What we are going through now we would have to repeat, but what we've done prior to this would be much less. We have some talking and thinking to do... we'll figure it out.

continued frustration

After looking at the list of 110 we match, we found all the groups of 2s and 3s and requested more info on them (most of them weren't listed on the website so we only knew gender, age, race). There were 11 groups of kids. Just heard back some yesterday and some today about them: 5 groups are already placed, 1 turned out to be a group of 4, 1 group doesn't want to be adopted, 1 group she can't find (???) and 1 group sounds a bit daunting. That leaves 2 possible groups and 1 we haven't heard anything back on. So, why, WHY! are we even shown these groups that are already placed or don't want to be adopted? Why are we wasting our time and energy on them?

This is frustrating!!

After waiting to get questions answered and to hear more information on Tavion/Chase/Otez we hear today that they are being placed with someone else. Something happened in their current living situation making it necessary for them to need immediate placement. Whenever possible they look for "concurrent" placement - a foster home that will adopt them, so this isn't just one more move for them. For unknown reasons they chose to place them with the other family that was considering them instead of us. There may be a relationship between this family and the county worker, we don't know why. It would've been risky for them to suddenly place them with us since we have learned very little about the boys at this point and we could easily choose not to adopt them later on. The frustrating part is we have been trying to get information, we wanted it, we sought it, but we weren't getting it - that seems to be the norm. I realize the social- and county workers are overloaded with work, they have a lot to do and are pulled in many directions. Logically I can recognize this and understand why it takes so long for anything to happen, but emotionally I get frustrated and angry with the lack of response and slowness with information.

We haven't heard anymore on Christopher/Isaac/Yulianna, we know their worker was interested in another family and are pursuing them, so that must all be moving forward.

So it's back to the drawing board. We have our list of 110 matches we can sort through and begin the process over again.