So we got the news last night that we were going to be parents of a three year old son and a 14 month old son. I can hardly believe it I was going to be a Mom!!! The excitement of seeing their pictures the next day made it impossible to sleep. When the email came from our case worker they sent it to my husband’s work. When he got the pictures he was so excited he could barely speak.
He sent me the email and I opened it up to see my sons, they had big brown eyes and looked so adorable I can hardly wait to meet them. With children who are no longer infants the state of Texas has meetings set up so you can get to know the kids and they can get to know you before you take them home. Ideally these meetings are to happen over the next few weeks, when at the end of the day the kids go back to their foster home until everyone is comfortable.
With our placement meeting the CPS case worker did not really agree with the child advocate that the brothers should be adopted together. The case worker thought it would be better to give us one brother and the other lady the other brother. When a child has a child advocate there is another voice that the case worker has to listen to. The child advocate is a volunteer who’s one and only responsibility is to what is best for the child. Luckily for us our children had the best Child Advocate she knew what would be best for them was to stay together. She is what we call our kids Guardian Angel she fought so hard to keep them together that she may have upset the CPS worker.
The reason I say that the CPS worker was upset is because we found out Wednesday night that we would be parents to finding out we had no get to know you weekends. The CPS worker wanted us to come down on Saturday and meet the boys at one of their foster homes. The plan is that on Saturday night we will bring the baby back to our hotel with us and the older one would go back to the foster home he had been with for the last year. On Sunday we would bring the baby back to his foster home and then on Monday we would all meet at the CPS office and we would get to bring our sons home.
There would be no get to know you days other than on Saturday. So in two days we had to get the room finished, most was done but we did have to get them beds and clothes, car seats and all this in 2 days.
See more of our process through other entries:
Becoming a Mom through adoption