Two years (and two 'babies') later...

Well it's been 2 years since I started this blog. I would apologize for not writing sooner but I don't think I have any readers. Awkward. So 587 days and 11 hours ago we picked up our two new baby boys (not legally babies but close enough - 8m and 2 yo brothers). In January 2011 almost one year after our training (and about 52 nagging/stalking phone calls/emails to my beautiful and patient case worker) we got the phone call. I nearly vomited with excitement. Only a day before I'd been told that nothing would be happening over the Christmas holidays. And then she tells me there are two. TWO. So if you recall how I became rather obsessed with the little boy in foster care that was casually mentioned before we did our training, that was like normal behavior compared to what happened when we were given photos and written descriptions about these precious little brothers. I was beside myself. Even Simon who is the calm, responsible one was really, really, really excited! It makes me emotional remembering it. There were further time/information discrepancies from DHS that are too annoying to go into, but about 6 weeks after finding out about them and getting to know them, we brought them home.

Doubts...

I had many, many doubts about doing it. I felt really nervous about getting a child this way. Very scared and still possibly a bit sad. I caught up with a girl I went to school with and she randomly (had no idea we were looking into permanent care) mentioned this beautiful boy she knew of who was about 3 and who was looking for a permanent family. He had basically been raised by one foster mum and was a lovely little boy. So, like a crazy lady I started to get obsessed with him. I thought I wanted a baby, but soon realized I just wanted another child and I didn't really care how old they were. I called DHS and found out that the next training for pc wasn't until February, 3 months away. I called all of the training places in Victoria, but there weren't any sooner. They also told me that we probably wouldn't be matched up with this little boy. They would try to make it like a natural family order, so they would need to be younger than Hugo, who was only 2. It was frustrating. We were able to arrange a meeting with this boy through friends, because apparently they give priority if there is a relationship established, but a few days before we decided that maybe we should just wait to do the training and see who they would match us up with. It turned out that the boy was only a little younger than Kitty, so it really might not have been fair to bring him in. DHS said we would do the training in Feb and probably have a child by April, shorter than a pregnancy. Finally we started training. *It's possible DHS have very different time measurements to the rest of us.