Sunshine Pt. 2
It's been several months since I first learned about the kid who stole my heart. Since that day, I've had the pleasure of meeting them a few times at TWHA events and learning more about them. Our interactions have been brief, but pleasant. After reviewing several hundred profiles of other kids, I finally made my intent known to my agency, which officially started us on the path of adoption. My agency submitted my home study to the child's case worker for review. I passed the case worker's review and was told that there would be a RAS meeting scheduled without me for all interested parties, including my adoption coordinator, DFPS, TWHA, the guardian ad litem, etc. My adoption coordinator would represent me and persuade the group to pick me. If there were multiple families interested in this child, then there would be other adoption agencies there to represent those families too, but that wasn't the case. After a couple of hours, I received ...