We are thrilled to let you know that today we received initial details of the child who will one day be ours :-) The child is not yet legally ours and as such we are not allowed to post any details on the internet, but PERFECTION doesn't even come close :-)We now have to wait for full details and medical background, which will arrive early next week. Once we have these documents we can talk to our social worker and get theirs and the LA's approval to accept this child. Then our LA will tell the DCSF they approve our adoption of this child and the DCSF will send us a letter giving us permission to travel to Ethiopia. Once we have this letter Me and Baby Sis will travel to Ethiopia for about a week to start the legal processes to adopt our little one, including applying in person for a Court Hearing Date. This date is likely to be about 8 weeks (ish) in the future. The whole family (minus Drama Teen who has chosen to stay at home with Grandparents) will travel back to Ethiopia to appear at the Court Hearing and then finalise all the other legal necessities that will allow us to bring our little one home with us. We will be in Ethiopia for about three weeks for this trip, and we are very excited about seeing and experiencing a tiny slice of our future child's birth country.
Life is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO good :-)
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YAAAAAAAAAAY!!
LMS - aka VERY EXCITED AND PROUD BIG SISTER!
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OMG!!
Lots of happy tears, but I NEED to know more!
Kate xxx
and Congratulations! xxxx
oh yeah, I need to know much more! When did you find out, how did you find out, . . . etc . . . etc!
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I am very happy for you Janet but I do wish we had a chance of having a daughter,sister for the boys.Its difficult for average families to beat a system.
Good luck with all and hoping a happy life for all.
Hugs
JANET!!!!
WHAT FABULOUS NEWS!!!!!!!
Have already emailed you but had to pop onto here to say congratulations and welcome to little sister!! Absolutely thrilled for you, that court date can't come soon enough!!!
lots of love
WL xxx
Janet,
I am soo happy for you guys! Can't wait to hear more. WooHoo!
Yay!!!!!!!!!!
I am so happy for all of you! How really really lovely.
I hope that the legal procedings happen very quickly.
Three weeks in country is going to be such a special part of her story.
Can't wait to hear a little bit more about her.
Congratulations!!!!!!!
Janet!
Just want to add my congratulations!!! Can't wait for her to get home!!!
Thank you to everyone for their good wishes :-) I am going to print them all out and make a "Good Wishes" scrapbook for our little one :-)
Lots of love from Cloud 9
Janet Mummy to FOUR :-)
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Hi Rosie,
Thank you too for being happy for us.
I am, however, upset that you have used your post to vent about your own wait for China though. During our chats over the years I believe you were asked if you wanted to change to domestic adoption (no costs involved) but you declined. You also choose to avoid the stress and worry of trying to change country. We are an average family too, and we decided to put ourselves through a year of stress and worry, to get to this point and now it is completely worth it.
I hope that your dream of a Chinese daughter comes true.
Best wishes
Janet
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I am very happy for you Janet and your family,of course I am and have supported you throughout the years as you have with us.I didn't mean that you weren't an average family,I was talking about all of us and the China process,sometimes my words don't come across in the right ways on posting ,its been very difficult for us all,though that doesn't take away from your joy .
Sorry if you took it the wrong way,it wasn't meant in the way it came across.Its just I'm finding it all very difficult at the moment and you can understand that as you've been through alot yourself but now its been worth it
Hugs
I can't wait to hear all the news!!
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