We are heading to TX to meet our new daughter next week! A bit of a unique situation which gets more tongue tied when I try to explain but I"ll give it a go :
We started foster care 5yrs ago. Our first placement was our now AD who was placed at birth.. When AD was born, she had a full sister *L* who was 12months older yet DCS did not take her b/c she was not technically in birthmom's care at the time. So we have known about AD's older sister from the beginning.. There were a few reports that were investigated but nothing ever happened and they all moved around.
birthmom ended up in TX w/ *L* and eventually *L* went into foster care. We found out about it and let them know our interest..
So now after a year of waiting, TPR has happened, appeal time is over, we've been thru ICPC & are FINALLY getting ready to meet her.
We've sent a few photo books of our family & home ect. We have yet to even see a pic of *L* but are told she looks very much like our AD. We are actually still waiting on the casefile to look over but it should be very soon. It is actually quite possible that we will meet her prior to getting the casefile. So we are planning to head down and get to meet her next week. We are staying 9days there and right now the plan is for the AW to place her in our home 2 days after we get back. Not to much of a transition but since we are well over 1000 miles away it's whats going to happen.. L is 5. She has been told about the adoption and understands whats going on..
OMG that was long.. lol! My question- yes there really is one- is how in the world do we introduce ourselves to her?? In our photo books I put them all from our AD's point of view so referred to ourselves as her mommy & daddy.. I've never done this before and never even fostered one this old- we tend to stick to the newborns. Any advice would be appreciated
Sorry for the book! LOL!