I posted this on Facebook yesterday:
Next year I will be celebrating Mother’s Day with my own child. *shivers*
To which, amongst others, received this comment:
How quickly will you guys have your little one?
To which I responded and also thought.. what a great blog post!
This is the timeline that we’re working with at the moment:
- Our orientation class is June 20th.
- From there, we will sign up for our 10 weeks of PRIDE classes (PDF link) which should end right around my birthday in August/September.
- After that, we will have our home study done – I was told it had to be completed within 90 days of completion of our classes – so by the end of November.
- While that home study is being completed, we will be looking at all the photolistings of children.
- Once our home study is approved for adoption, we will select children we want more information about based on their limited online profiles and our social worker will reach out to their social worker and see if we’re a match. If we are, we will get their file and arrange to meet him/her/them.
- The timeframe from here on is a little shaky as we really don’t know how long this can take.
- After we spend time with him/her/them, we will have a few sleepovers, then they will move in.
- If all goes well, 6 months later, we will finalize the adoption in court and apply for new birth certificates.
There are hundred of thousands of children in US foster care. Roughly 40% of them are legally free and available for adoption. The term “special needs” refers to children due to specific factors or conditions such as being over 8, having a particular racial or ethnic background, being part of a sibling group needing to be placed together, medical conditions, and physical, mental, or emotional handicaps.
Now, why do I keep saying “him/her/them” – we have not fully decided boy or girl or one of each. If we can move into a 3-4 bedroom home, we can open our home and lives up to more children. 2 is our max sibling group size at the moment. I do still want a boy and a girl, but we’ve been told that they need their own rooms. So, master, boy room, girl room, office = 4 bedrooms. Unless we can find a super huge master bedroom or a closet-less den to use for an office, we can go to a 3 bedroom.
Anyone know of 3-4 bedroom 2-3 bathroom homes in the Palmetto Bay/ Cutler Bay, West Kendall area for under $1,400 a month? Our current lease is up in August so we’re on the hunt for new digs!
