I am one week into another 8 week challenge, and I guess its about time to type things up here. Ive been using my paper journal so far, but, alas, I didn't feel like cramping my hand today ;) its interesting how lazy we as a people are now when it comes to writing. I CAN'T be the only one who prefers to TYPE things,, than to laboriously hand write pages of information.....
But I digress ...
We are now 3 weeks away as of today, from finalizing Maya and Gracie's adoptions. I am so thrilled I can't even tell you! We have had to say goodbye to EIGHT children .. some of them we knew were only short term in our care, while others were longer term, but that doesn't take away the fact that we cared for them,, fell in love with them (how can you NOT fall in love with a child?) and had to say goodbye to them. We had a few though that were "supposed" to stay in our family forever, and yet, things happened, and we had to say goodbye to them as well. But now, here we are ... 3 weeks away from REALLY, and TRULY finalizing the adoptions of two of our beautiful daughters. and there is nothing but three weeks that will stand in the way of this event.
Nikolas is now officially legally free for adoption, as of 7/13 ... and his case worker is working fast to get his case transferred to the adoption agency. Once his case is transferred, within the next couple of weeks, we can then get things ready to finalize HIS adoption. This means, within the next couple of months, our family will FINALLY "OFFICIALLY" be complete! No more case workers, no more lawyers, no more judges... NONE of that... just a NORMAL FOREVER FAMILY!
In the 13 years we have been married, 12 of them have been spent working to this moment. we spent years dealing with infertility and the pains therein, and then years of dealing with the foster care system (and the pains THEREIN) ... after 12 years, we are finally going to be able to just BE A FAMILY!!! OUR OWN FAMILY!
I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, and it is oh so beautiful!
