This is so great Sarah! I’m really happy for your family! Welcome back to blogland. : )
Oh lady! You are fantastic. Can’t wait to read more :)
So glad you are back. :) You and yours have been missed.
Sarah,
I am so happy for your family! I have a question, though. I believe that at some point in the past, when talking about foster-adoption, you said that there was a timeframe for how long the natural parents have to take the child back. (I may have picked that up elsewhere…). Is that the case, and if so, what is the length of time? (i.e. at what point will this be able to transition from a foster situation into a formal adoption?)
Thanks!
Congratulations! What an exciting time. It sounds like she’s a very lucky little girl and you’ve been lucky to share this very special time with her. However they come or however long they stay, children are always a blessing. You all must be SO BUSY! Does this situation have the potential of becoming a foster to adopt? And did you have to get that bigger car you once mentioned in conjunction with fostering?
I missed you too! (Okay, that might be a little creepy, seeing as you don’t know me). I am glad to hear you’ll be blogging more. I’ve read your blog for years and it’s consistently inspired me, first when I was a nanny for young children and especially now that I’m expecting my first in just nine weeks. I love going back and reading and re-reading your old posts. I miss hearing about the little projects you do daily, your toys and games, books and stories and your cooking and planting goals.
You have been missed! Thank you for keeping your heart open to those whom need your family -for however long that may be. Sending hugs to all 5 of you!
May God continue to bless you and your beautiful family, Sarah! Thank you for sharing your journey with us!
This is a beautiful development. I’m so happy for all of you, for opening your home and hearts. It’s good work and it’s important work.
Sarah, your sentence “It will have been worth it” brought tears to my eyes. How brave of you to be willing to give your love without holding yourself back internally.
well that is wonderful news and worth the wait! Look forward to reading about your journey!
Re: adoption. It really varies from case to case. In LA County, the typical way things work is that there are 6 months of reunification services, 6 months without, and then a varying number of months after that before parental rights are terminated. After termination of parental rights, there is an appeal period. So for most children who wind up adopted in Los Angeles County, the process takes 12+ months. That said, we’ve met people who adopted after 2 months and people who adopted after 4 years and people who fostered for 8 years and then had the child reunify - it really depends significantly on the child’s case.
As for us, we are certified for both fostering and adopting, but we will not be sharing the case details specific to our foster daughter at this time.
Julien - No, we managed to fit three car-seats in the back of a Civic! It’s a pain in the ass to lift in the middle kid, but if we can hold off another year or two on a new car, that would be nice =)
P.S. Leah, I know I’ve already said this, but seriously, thank you so much for the recommendation on How To Train Your Dragon - that book series is making it’s second round in our house right now and we’ve been making dioramas from it and dragon puppets and the works. THANK YOU x1,000,000!!
Thank you for sharing this part of your life! I will look forward to more posts about the experience. I am a social worker in a NICU so work with foster-adopt families fairly often with babies with prenatal drug exposure. I’m interested in possibly pursuing foster-adoption for our family someday as well.
This is wonderful news! I wish you and your family all the best. such an exciting time.
Well, Bless your heart my dear. What a wonderful development. Lucky you and lucky little girl and lucky us for having you back. I have no idea how you find the energy but I am so glad that you do.
Wow, Sarah!! Congratulations!! I wish you and your family the best and look forward to reading whatever it is that you choose to share.
Hi Sarah, I am so glad you have decided to start writing again. I missed you and your writing. I wish you the best of luck with the new baby and I commend you for doing such a wonderful thing for a child. I have a baby girl of my own now- 5 months old! and I look forward to more glimpses into a life with little girls! Thank you!
Hooray!! Love & well wises to all FIVE of you!
I love this so much. It is awesome how willing you are to love this new daughter even though she may not be yours to keep. It matters so much how well babies are loved even if they never remember. Your family will have made such an impact on her even if she is reunified with her birth parents. Not to mention the wonderful lesson you are actively teaching Charlotte and Evelyn about unconditional love.
Julien - Apparently, I should take back what I said about the car. Up until about 10pm last night I thought we were going to be holding off on a larger car for awhile, but then my husband found out about a used van and…long story short now we have a van.
So. I guess we did end up with a bigger car after all.
This is great news! I’m so glad that there was room in your hearts (and you MADE room in your lives) for this little girl. She will be better for it and so will all of you. Much love for the journey.
Congratulations! I have been following you for over four years and have cried, smiled, laughed, felt so many emotions with you, I am overjoyed for you and your family!
I remember you saying a long time ago that you wouldn’t be able to write about her, so I hoped and hoped and hoped this was the reason! I’m so happy for you! Congratulations times a gazillion!
Sarah,
So happy to have been able to share with y’all! After all, what in the world is greater than a child’s imagination?
L
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