Profile completed!

[frenchteachermama]

I just sent our profile books off to our agency, our video is filmed, and they have all of our paperwork.  Everything is out of my control now!  I am so nervous and excited.  I know that we probably have a very long wait ahead of us but I'm just so excited!!

We're going to tell our daughters tomorrow that we're hoping to add to our family through adoption.  Our agency gave us some very good advice with how to frame the process to our girls (7&4) but I was wondering if anyone has any advice for me.

Thanks in advance!

[delenire]

I don't have any advice but wanted to say congrats!

[chele]

Much luck to you!

[drl]

Ahhhh, good luck!

[chicago]

Congrats on finishing up. I can't imagine doing a video ... I'm glad that's not standard with our agency
No advise on telling your daughters, but good luck!

[lizblue]

Yay! So excited for you and your family! The video sucks, right? Not my favorite part but they really do edit it so that it looks fine.

I hope your wait is not too long, but perhaps just a tad longer than mine. We were only in the books for three weeks and I'm not complaining, but it was slightly too quick.

Just make sure you have a car seat. Just saying.

Yay again!

[roxy]

Sorry, no advice for you. Congrats that is great news!

[ceejay]

Congratulations and good luck!

My youngest sister is adopted (from China) and I will always remember how my parents told me and my other sister the news that we would be adopting. I was 9 and she was 6 at the time. My parents arranged a Chinese new year celebration for our family (I had coincidentally just been studying China in school so it made sense to do that even though we never had before), and they had prepared fortune cookies for us with a message inside that said "Your parents have some exciting news for you!" After we read the message, they told us that our family would be adopting a baby girl from China. We were so excited!

Obviously that example is very specific for the type of adoption my family did, but I would encourage you to tell your daughters in a fun and special way, since that day may be something they remember forever.

[frenchteachermama]

Nov 19, 2015 13:28:37 GMT -5 lizblue said:

Yay! So excited for you and your family! The video sucks, right? Not my favorite part but they really do edit it so that it looks fine.

I hope your wait is not too long, but perhaps just a tad longer than mine. We were only in the books for three weeks and I'm not complaining, but it was slightly too quick.

Just make sure you have a car seat. Just saying.

Yay again!

Lol! I hope we're lucky like you ?!! My baby car seat is expired but luckily I have neighbor's who are going to lend us theirs if we need it!!

[frenchteachermama]

Nov 19, 2015 13:21:06 GMT -5 chicago said:

Congrats on finishing up. I can't imagine doing a video ... I'm glad that's not standard with our agency
No advise on telling your daughters, but good luck!

It was traumatic and I look 700 pounds heavier but it's done and we sound sincere!

[nobb14]

Congratulations!!! Piggybacking off of lizblue as another mama who was matched fairly quickly...

Its okay to buy some supplies before you are matched to just have around the house- think diapers and wipes. I wouldn't buy a ton, but I know that when I returned home from a month of travel with DS's birth and placement, we didn't have a stockpile of his preferred stuff to bring home, so having some already at home bought us some time from running immediately out to the store after exhaustive travel, even if they weren't exactly right (i.e. He uses huggies, but I had target brand at home, so we used them until the following day- this allowed us to get some rest before running errands.) granted DS doesn't have sensitive skin, and I know this may not work if child in question has an allergic reaction to these items, but it did me help feel a little less overwhelmed.

I do not have advice in telling the other children, but I am so excited for you!