Adventure no.1

Here we are in the middle of what seems like the longest and shortest adventure we have taken on so far. In just a few more days Matt will be celebrating is 31st birthday and it is one more birthday closer to us being parents. When we decided to adopt we had no idea what it would look like or how it would grow. There are a thousand and one decisions that have to be made in the start and that is including where your children will come from, what age they will be and sixteen thousand other parts.

Then as in the way of all things with this crazy adoption journey we get thrown a curve ball. On Monday we received an email from our amazing caseworker with a request from the SNAP worker. (At some point I will make a post that explains who all of these people are in the adoption world). There are two little boys 3 and 5 who have been diagnosed with Fragile X. The SNAP person asked for us and Ms. M (our caseworker) told us to educate ourselves on Fragile X before we decide to pursue.

One email turned the whole picture of "our children" into something utterly new and somewhat scary. Now we are asking the questions of what happens when the children get to this point or that point. In all honesty we had never heard of FX before this email and it lead to the worlds longest night of research about something total foreign to us both. Here is a link for anyone who is curious. Even if these little boys do not become our forever children, we are both more educated and realize that this is a disorder that needs much more exposure. The link is www.fragilex.org.

So at this point you may be wondering where in the world we go from here. That is part of the fun of the foster-adopt system. It speeds up and slows down with incredible speed. We will wait to hear back from the caseworker and then ask questions. After the questions comes an interview. (More on that crazy step to come.)

We may never actually get to parent these amazing little guys. But our hearts hope that we get the chance.