The termination case continues to move slowly through the appellate court process, but things are happening. We were fingerprinted for the adoption and background checked AGAIN. We filed our petition to adopt, gave the boys new names for official paperwork and signed lots of papers. We also got to review the case files.
It was astonishing how much paperwork there is in what they refer to as a small case. The case file was over 2 feet high. In some ways it was like reliving the horrible stuff, and in some ways it was an incredible gift.
My favorite part was getting to see their newborn information and the hospitals' copies of the boys tiny foot prints. We were given a notepad to take notes, but we used our phones and snapped pictures of things like that. We requested copies of the medical info, but we don't know if we will get that for certain.
We pulled out the filing for termination and snapped pictures of the whole thing. I don't know how curious our babes will be someday, but when the time is right then I believe they have a right to know their story. All of it.
So now I just wait for the Appellate process to complete and dream of the day when they are finally ours and the insecurity of all of this is behind us.
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