What's going on?!?

This blog update is to update everyone on what is going on with the kids. It'll probably be short because I can't go into too much detail until they are officially ours. That's right, you read that correctly, we are thisclose to adopting our kiddos!!

I cannot wait until we adopt them and can be done with monthly reports/visits/appointments. And we've only been doing these for the past 2 years. My kids have had to deal with visits from different agency's for so long now. They are ready to be done with the foster care system too.

Our boy routinely asks when it, the adoption, will be done. Anytime we have an appointment for anything and come home his first question is, "are we adopted yet?". It's cute and sad all at the same time. Our girl is just ready to be done with talking to different people all the time. She is finally in a place where she is happy and comfortable and she wants to quit having to tell everyone she is happy and comfortable. I can't say that I blame her. As far as foster kids go, our kids are pretty well adjusted and have very few signs of trauma and negative experiences in their lives. Honestly, sometimes when they do exhibit the effects of neglect/trauma I forget that they are in foster care. That they have legitimate reasons for acting the way they are at that moment. I have to remind myself, sometimes after the fact, that they are still dealing with some pretty big changes in life.

Right now, the timeline we are looking at is about 1 month or so. We are pretty much just waiting on the paperwork to be finalized for the transfer from the county their case was in to ours and miscellaneous other items to check off. I'm super excited and Elias is too. Like I said, we can't wait to have this adoption finalized and we are both glad that it is happening before the baby gets here. We cannot wait for our friends and family to go with us to the courthouse and celebrate with us afterwards. We are just ready. Personally, I'm ready to show y'all pictures of them too because they are pretty cute kids.

So, that's what's going on in regards to adoption. We are so close to having it finalized and can't believe that it's almost here!