Category Archives: Adoption

A couple of months ago, my daughter’s therapist said that she thought it might be useful for my daughter to do a few attachment narrative therapy sessions with me. As part of the process, I needed to write my own … Continue reading →

Before we ever met our children, our social worker made sure that we read their child protection file. Although I will not go into great detail about the trauma that our children suffered before we met them, let’s just say … Continue reading →

December 21, 2012, will forever be a special day in our house. That was the day that S&J’s adoption finalized in Court. What else was significant about that day? Well, the world didn’t end (all of the “world ending” rumors remind … Continue reading →

After S&J were officially placed with us for adoption, we did not get to immediately finalize the adoption in court. Instead, we needed to wait until they had lived in our house for at least 3 months, pursuant to Minn. … Continue reading →

Sidenote: I still have not finished up our Adoption Story blog post series; there are 2 more posts left for me to draft and post. Life has been crazy in our household lately and when I haven’t been working or … Continue reading →

After we met S & J for the first time, we spent about 3 weeks doing “transition visits” with them. We would spend a day with them on the weekend and another weeknight with them. Then we had our first … Continue reading →

Here are links to Part 1 and Part 2 S & J found out about us (and got their photo albums from us) on April 30 or May 1. Eric and I didn’t know what the girls thought – or … Continue reading →

If you haven’t already read Part 1, here is where you can find it. In June or July of 2011, we started the home study process. We had 3 or 4 meetings with our social worker at CHSFS in St. … Continue reading →

I always thought that I would want to adopt one day. When Eric and I were first dating, I made sure that he was on the same page and was “okay” with the idea of adopting. About one year after … Continue reading →

In a previous post I discussed receiving foster care payments as a part of the process of adopting through the Minnesota Waiting Children program. One part of the foster care payment is the Difficulty of Care (DOC) payment. Minnesota Administrative … Continue reading →