Where are you at in the adoption process?

[SarahSuzyQ]

Are you starting to gather information? Working on your license and homestudy? Waiting for a match? Waiting for a court date? Or have you completely finalized?

I know we've talked about this before... But we've had lots of new members join us recently, and some of us have moved farther along our journey since the last time we discussed it.

So tell us -- where is your family at in the adoption process?

[makingourfamily]

We are in the waiting phase.

[ljnnmommy]

I am done;) first finalization was Dec. 2005 and my second one was Sept. 2010

[J-Mo]

Hello, my husband & I began our adoption process in March 2011; our first match occurred in March of this year. BM changed her mind - we have had two more matches since, back-to-back. The next two also changed their minds and decided to parent.

We are trying to decide what our next step should be after such major disappointment in such a short period of time.

[Malley]

 I've adopted twice. The first time about 28 years ago for my twins and the second time in the fall when I adopted my dd's boys.

My twins at their Kindergarten graduation

The boys on Adoption Day. Derek looks exactly like my dd.

[MamaEngineer]

We are preparing to receive information about a possible foster-adopt match and are praying for our first placement this summer. We began our process July 2010, got licensed September 2011 then had to switch to a private agency April 2012 because the state decided they did not want to work with us because we wanted to adopt children from foster care. It does not even make sense to our foster licensor. This will be our first child and we will most likely be matched with a child 8 or older.

[jen.mom.of.four]

Finalized May 2010

[seaniesmommie87]

we finalize in about 2 months.

[MommynMonster]

We're gathering information right now, we're considering adoption through foster care but we're stationed overseas for another year and I dont think they have foster care here.

[gottadance]

I am 33 months on adoption waiting list for newborn girl - being single and gender specific makes it a long wait! I'm now #1 on the waiting list for a girl, so hopefully it'll happen soon. I also just got engaged, so we're now working on creating a new profile that includes both of us.

[Juliejinks]

We just adopted our sweet lil peanut in March and we will be finalizing on Aug 2nd!