Forever Ours!
October 28, 2010
Well, today Isabella became forever ours!
In the state of Tennessee, you must wait six months to finalize an adoption. So, in the last six months, we have met our post placement requirements by meeting with our social worker three times and we have stayed on top of all of Isabella’s medical appointments. After we got our home study updated and got new criminal background checks, we were good to go! Tuesday morning we got the call, can you do Thursday at 9am? Uhh, of course!
We all went downtown to the City County building. We all went through security, the boys thought that this was super cool (after they went through, Luca was not sure about it at first). We had to walk past all of the very interesting folks that go to court on a Thursday morning; boy oh boy, there were some! We got into the judges chambers and my heart was beating a little fast, very nervous!! We met with the judge, had a quick swearing-in (so that we would tell the truth of course), promised to love Isabella forever, and then the judge signed Isabella’s final adoption documents. It was a done deal! Isabella was ours, and also a United States Citizen. What a big day for her, and she was consumed with getting the lollipop from Noah. To her knowledge it was like any other day, she wanted what her big brother had!!
Thank you to all of you who have prayed for us over the past year, what an emotionally up and down year it has been! Tomorrow will be the one year anniversary of the day that we received our referral for Isabella. We are so glad that this chapter in our life is closed and we can go to living a wonderful life as a family of FIVE!!
As many of you know, I am not good at posting on the blog, but I will try to add pictures here and there.
