Well, 15 days after CPS chose us to be the parents of these precious little boys, our agency has received their case file. They will review it and then get with us and help us go through all the details of their past.
Once we have done that, we will have our placement staffing. This will be a meeting with lawyers, case workers, casa worker and foster parents...all the people actively involved in the boy's lives at this moment. They will tell us all they know about the kids and their case and we can ask any and all questions.
This meeting is the life changer for us. We have a mandatory 24 hour waiting period before they will accept our answer of yes or no.
I am so excited I can hardly contain myself and yet crippled with fear about becoming an instant mom! I can envision life with our three sons...their smiles and laughter, enjoying their first times at so many things, it is a wonderful dream. Then I think, what if I am no good at this? No more quite moments, not having a schedule and doing as we please, always having someone need me. It is a huge change!!
I'm just going to take a leap of faith and trust that God has all this taken care of!!
Until then, I will work on my patience as I wait on CPS :-)
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Monday, July 8, 2013
On the verge of...becoming parents!
Tonight my husband and I are in a bit of shock. We ventured into the adoption arena in September 2012. We decided we would like to adopt older kids from CPS and that we would like a sibling group of 2-4, preferably boys. Well, we got our wish!
At the end of June, we were chosen for a CPS selection staffing and we found out today that we were picked! By August, we are most likely going to be the proud parents of 3 boys ages 5, 3, and 20 months. We happen to be white and they are black so this will just add to our little adventure!
They are handsome young men deserving of all the best this world has to offer and I just pray to God that we can do right by them :-)
With this blog I will attempt to share the process of going from just the 2 of us, 2 black labs and our lovely quite world to a family of 5 plus 2 fur babies!!
We still have several things to go through before we give our final verdict of yes or no for the boys. We also have tons of things that we want to do in preparation for our instant family. July is going to be one CRAZY month!!
At the end of June, we were chosen for a CPS selection staffing and we found out today that we were picked! By August, we are most likely going to be the proud parents of 3 boys ages 5, 3, and 20 months. We happen to be white and they are black so this will just add to our little adventure!
They are handsome young men deserving of all the best this world has to offer and I just pray to God that we can do right by them :-)
With this blog I will attempt to share the process of going from just the 2 of us, 2 black labs and our lovely quite world to a family of 5 plus 2 fur babies!!
We still have several things to go through before we give our final verdict of yes or no for the boys. We also have tons of things that we want to do in preparation for our instant family. July is going to be one CRAZY month!!
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