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We're practically local, both being in the GTA!
We adopted Shawntay through CAS after having done foster relief for her. She came to live with us as a foster placement in Sept. of 2004 while we got our paperwork done. We finalized in August of this year. We had applied to adopt, but it's at least 2 years here to get your homestudy complete so thought we had lots of time. We were going to take another vacation, renovate the kitchen...and three months later we got the call! So, no vacation, no kitchen, but a wonderful little girl! She just turned 6.
We do foster relief, and fostered Shawntay, through Bridgeway Family Homes, not though CAS, so we had twice as many worker. They were all really great, though, so it was a positive experience.
Because we had fostered her from September until the branch hearing in March, our adoptive probation was only one month. Awful, awful term!
I would love to adopt again...in fact, can't imagine not adopting again. DH wants bio next, so we'll be going that route, but I'm sure I'll be ready to call CAS to update our homestudy within a year of that!
Allana
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