Adopting Again

Adopting Our Second Child

Since adoptions are not always handled the same, it's hard to predict how long it may take. Our second son's adoption was only supposed to take about a year. It lasted nearly two years until finalization.
Once we were matched with this child, we set up a time which we could meet the caseworker and the child. It was about a six hour drive from our home to the residential home in which the boy resided. We confirmed an appointment and were all set, so we thought....
In phone interviews we were told by the agency that once we met the child and all went well, that he could be transferred to our home into foster care to adopt. We were told we would have little travel time involving the move. This is not how it all worked out. After meeting the boy, we set up another visit with traveling six hour one way. The child was ready for us and we were ready for him. Regardless this turned into 21 more trips and six months. The residential home finally released him into our care. Between all these trips we had him in our care for weekends at our traveling expense. For six months every other weekend, we drove 12 hrs. round trip to pick him up, bring him to our home, then return him again at the weekend's end.
Finally, he was released permanently!
Some adoption cases go smoothly, some not. It depends on legal ends needing tied up.
A successful adoption was done over two years ago. We have a total of three adopted children. All boys!
We don't regret the choice to adopt.