CoVid-19 really changed the world as we know it. It put us in quarantine, made us really learn about family time, tested our patience, made us teachers, made us referees (more than usual for me), closed down businesses, stopped parental visits in foster care and stopped court. When it stopped court it stopped adoptions, it stopped our adoption.... It was a wonderful surprise the day I opened an email from our attorney stating that the courts planned on opening in June and we were one of the first 5 cases to been seen! Yes we got an adoption date! We had only 1 month and 5 days to go! We just had to hold our breath that they would open on schedule and remain open at least until noon on our day! Well we are just 5 days away now, well technically 4 days, 16 hours, 6 minutes and 28 seconds....but who's counting? We aren't allowed to take in anyone except immediate family now but that's OK. We will celebrate after. It is crazy to think how far we have come in the past 922 days. They will have been in our lives for only 926 days on their adoption day but yet we have gone through so much already. I have watched them deal with things that most adults never have to deal with. We have gone through/watched/experienced deaths, imprisonments, courts hearings, over doses, homelessness, foreclosure, rehab, signing over rights, major highs, major lows, cancer scares, kids in and kids out of our home, more family members getting removed from their homes, birth of a new sibling, first family vacations, re-connection with family members after years of foster care, big fights, bad arguments, more family bonding, building relationships, repairing relationships and building of a new family, and that's not even all! Its absolutely amazing. Would I have changed anything in the past 922 days? Oh hell yea! Would I do it again? Oh hell yea! Looking forward to what lies ahead, not just the next 926 days but for the rest of my life with my kids. Our new life begins in 4 hours, 15 hours, 46 minutes, 35 seconds...
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