Today was the day we were supposed to finalise our home study. We had an email from Miranda apologising again for the delay, and thanking us for some information updates we sent her, but still no date for our rescheduled interviews.
I went to the school today for the first time since late December (the past couple of weeks I could not take the time off) and had a great time playing with the kids. I was with the 5 year olds today and they were learning about hearing (the theme for this term is the five senses), so we played games that included recognising different sounds.
At the weekend we met up with S&J, two guys we met at the New Family Social who adopted a boy last year and live near us. They invited us round for coffee and we chatted about the adoption process and everything they went through. Their son is a very sociable chatty boy who was very happy to talk to us, show us his toys and even the book that S&J had made for him just before they were introduced. We went to their local pub for lunch and chatted some more. They must have answered a thousand questions for us. They've not had any issues at school (with the other kids or their parents) with their son having two dads, which is something that has always worried us. Their son has really settled with them now and it's a pleasure to see them together as they make a great family. After such a disappointing start to the weekend last Friday, it was great to spend the afternoon with them.
Monday, 19 January 2009
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3 comments:
Hola Fernando,
My name is Pablo and reading you blog is quite inspiring. I'm in the same situation are you were, I'm from Uruguay 36yo, my partner Neil 40 yo and English. Me and my partner are discussing the possiblity of adoption so Im just researching at the moment but stories like yours are encouraging.. particularly becuase we tend to think that for gay couples is almost impossible.
I havent had time to take a look at the whole process but I will. I just wanted to thank you for taking the time of doing this and sure, there is alway people reading it.
Take care
Hola Pablo,
Thanks for your comments. I hope reading about our process so far helps you two arrive at a decision. My advice would be - just do a search for your local authority adoption team and other agencies and find out as much as you can. The more you know the better prepared you will be to make a decision. And at the end of the day no-one is going to force you to adopt, so if after finding out you decide you don't want to go ahead then there's nothing wrong with that. You may want to get in touch with the New Family Social group. Good luck.
Thanks, will keep you posted!
All the best
Pablo
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