Personal Adoption Story

Adoption Story One

My husband and I made the decision to do foster care in the hopes to adopt. We were new to the whole concept. We were led by a county agency worker every step of the way. She started by approving us for foster care. We filled out hundreds of papers and sent many copies such as drivers license, background histories, etc...
Our home was approved after they completed a home safety check. On one particular form we requested to care for a child no older than five years, as our personal preference. We wanted a chance to adopt a young child, and didn't want to chance getting an older child.
Only about a week after we were approved, the caseworker called me mid afternoon while my husband was at work. She had a small boy at the age of eight, that had to be placed immediately, as he needed to be removed from his home again. They were lacking in foster care homes. She assured me that it may only be for the weekend and possibly into a week until they could find him a more permanent placement.
I hesitated because going from childless to having an eight year old boy around was rather scary. After some thought I accepted and awaited his arrival. Shortly after, the caseworker pulled into our drive, before my husband had come home from work. I greeted them in the drive. Out of the car came this white haired, tiny little boy, with thick glasses. He looked over them at me and stared at the playground we had built in hopes of adopting children. The caseworker brought him inside and assured him he would be OK with me and left with the promise to him she would be back in a day or so to check in with him. He was very quiet. He never answered my questions in casual conversation. He was scared to death! At eight years old, he was so little! He was cute as a button!
Getting to know him over the weekend, and being briefed on his circumstances, we knew at the end of that weekend, we never wanted him to go back. He needed someone to fight for him. He needed a family to take care of him. We believe the caseworker knew we would feel this way, because it took no time at all to permanently place him in our care. As time went by, and parental rights were dwindling, we made reservation to adopt. Soon we did. He was our first child! Legally our child!
We anxiously awaited yet another child.

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