Saturday at Word Camp Miami was aMAZing! I’ll be doing an in-depth recap on that later with pictures and some stuff I learned. Needless to say, I am crazy excited about today and getting some stuff implemented around here.
Saturday night, we started talking and eventually got onto the topic of adoption. Actually, it was from a blog lead I got at WCM from one of the guys I met. I started reading the blog earlier and it is about a Caucasian family that was in the process of adopting their second child. The first child was a little Caucasian girl and the second is a little African-American girl. They also have a biological son. I flipped through most of her blog reading snippets here and there to Steve, then flipped over to AdoptUsKids.org to do yet another Child Search.
I would read off the names and ages, quickly scan the profiles, then show him the pictures.. And then do a more in-depth read of the profiles for why (physically/ mentally/ emotionally) the children were in the system. His comments were always the same: “Why are they in foster care? What happened that they are now in the system? Where are their families?” Rightfully so as I’m yet to come across a profile answering those questions.
Actually, no. Tonight I found one that stated some possible causes and that potential adoptive parents needed to know about those topics and the adverse effects.
This exercise led to questions of, since we might be able to actually choose, do we want 2 boys, 2 girls, or 1 of each? Yes, We want 2 siblings. I *think* we decided on one of each, but there’s plenty of time to figure that out.
The comment “we need to get things rolling if we’re going to do this” was uttered. While, yes, I still would love to have an infant, I am so happy over this adoption process! Biological kids aren’t ruled out at all, we’re just not going to focus on that until I get insurance again. From that point, we’ll see what the feasibility of things occurring naturally are and make the decision then.
Love that Becca! I was looking into that a few years ago. American Indian children, or children in foster care. Usually you adopt the whole family two to 6 siblings. I wish I could of handled that financially—We’ll see how the book and script go, and who knows.
I prefer adoption myself, millions of children are “Out There” and then they turn 18 they are thrown out of adoption agencies with 20 dollars. So they are is desperate need.
Very selfless of you–even looking into that! :0)