My My Sweet July...

It seems like to took forever to get here, and I feel like we have forever to go. I honestly feel so blessed to be in this position.

Every one's asking "What's going on with the girls?"  We had our first full disclosure meeting on July 3rd with CYFD. In this meeting, their case supervisor gave us a review of their history and incidents that brought them in the foster care system. The meeting took about an hour and they have us two 3 inch thick binders of their information to review. The binders included their history, therapy treatment plans, safety plan, birth and school records. I spent July 4th reading M's file and finished with S's file on Sunday. We had our 2nd tier disclosure with their therapists on Monday, July 8th. At this meeting their foster mom attended. Their therapists were great at answering our questions and gave us a real insight to how they are doing. Meeting with their foster mom was also amazing. We heard first hand of how they do day to day. After these meetings we are required to take 72 hours to 2 weeks to decide if this is right for us.

I placed the phone call this morning to their placement worker and informed her that we wanted to proceed with the adoption of M&S.

So when do we get to see them? Well, we scheduled our calendar meeting for July 18th. At this meeting we will be making a 3 week transition calendar with them. This includes days we can meet, days we can talk on the phone, days that they can come over, and days that they can stay over. Their workers would like a quick transition due to their anxiety. They would like them in our house as soon as they can and then be able to visit with their foster parents and grandparents after they are with us (and of course before me move.)

We also have some therapy training sessions coming up next week. On Monday we meet one on one with their therapist to get more specifics, with a group training session following that. Also on Thursday we have an intervention therapy meeting with a group. These are just some of the classes they would like us to take to help process the hardships of M&S.

It's going to be a rough, hard, road for us and these two little lovelies. But I am dedicated to making it work, and having a fulfilling life with them. I so can't wait!!!

So that's where we are now. I can't wait for the future and to be able to share all the wonderful things we get into!