In the last month, my husband and I have taken all but one of the required classes we need for our pre-adoptive training. These classes are the introductory training sessions for foster families, except for the last one which is all about adoption. After that class is complete, we will begin the process of completing our home study. Really, we don't know much about the adoption process, since the classes thus far have been geared toward foster homes, so I'm very much relying on knowledge gained from other people's blogs about adoption home studies & the checklists I've found for my state's foster care "environment" rules. I figure if we are on target to be a safe foster home, we should be good to adopt, eh?
Although these are the source for our general guidelines, we have decided to only pursue adoption. We just do not feel like our hearts are tough enough to handle legal-risk placements. Additionally, worth note, I have quit my job last week. My husband is currently doing a lot of freelance work in addition to his full-time work, and we have a LOT of projects that we need to complete around the house in preparation for the kiddos. Oh, yes. KiddoS. Did I mention we are definitely looking at sibling groups exclusively? So, yeah. It's been quite a month!
The kids I wrote about last post are still listed on the web. I call them my "inspiration kids". They continue to inspire me to do what needs done for my family-to-be, but I really don't know their situation & they may have a different mommy by the time I'm having my fingerprints sent in, let alone get to the "seriously consider actual kids" point of the adoption process.
