I don't know about you, but we are so crazy busy this month!! We have our usual Christmas gatherings and errands, but we have also had so much adoption stuff going on for our home study! As you know, we had our first visit with our social worker last week on Monday. Then on Saturday we completed our required training at the agency. It was called "Infant Training". Jayson and I laughed because we thought it was going to all be about how to take care of an infant. After our two infants, we could care for any child!! We also have to have our next and final chunk of paper work done by January 2nd... We have 3 weeks!! When you add in Christmas and New Years, that doesn't leave much time!!
The training was so much different than we expected it to be. We covered all of the laws for adopting in Idaho for all parties involved (birth mom, birth dad, adoptive parents, agency, etc.). We covered transracial adoption, medical openness, what to expect when adopting a child that has been exposed to different substances during pregnancy, and openness in adoption. In a lot of ways this training made us feel more at peace about a lot of things! Mostly being open in our adoption. There are varying degrees of openness and these are established between each birth mother and/or father and the adoptive parents. We went into this knowing that openness was best and being willing to do it, but not really having a peace about it. When we left, we both felt so much better about it and are much more prepared for an open adoption.
One of the things that we became more nervous about was the transracial adoption. For me personally, I don't want to willingly adopt a child that I knowingly cannot meet the needs of. I know that this is sort of a hot topic, and I am not wanting to offend or push anyone's buttons. Please don't feel that I am intending to be that way. We are still open to adopting a child of any race and would love that child no differently than we love Ava and Ryan Mostly I am just asking that if you have any experience with this, or know of any good resources that would help us, please feel free to share that with us!! We have already purchased a book from Amazon called "Inside Transracial Adoption". I am anxious to get it and start reading it. If you know of any others, please, please, please let us know!! We want to be completely educated on all things adoption :).
We are also looking for books or movies that are for children to help them prepare for adopting their sibling. If you know of any that would address that, please let us know!
Thank you for your continued prayer and support! God is moving!
-Andrea
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