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Originally Posted By louise

Maybe a short intro, where we are in the adoption process, if we have kids, their ages and the state we live in. Me, dh, 14yo g, bio, 13yo b ad, 12yo b twins bio, 11yo g ad, 10yo g ad, 7yob ad. Live in sunny California. In the process of finalizing 7yo adoption. Louise

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I'm going the foster/adopt route. No kids yet. I'm in Virginia. Will be a single mom.

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Originally Posted By Mike

My story:

31yo single heterosexual with an approved homestudy seeking to adopt an older caucasian boy (9 to 13).

Right now, I am in contention for three different kids (2 in Ohio, 1 in Washington).

I'm in Indiana, where you NEVER get a response on inquiries about kids. (Well, ALMOST never)

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My husband and I live in North Carolina with 2 dogs who think they are human. No other "kids" but have matched with 3 boys in New Jersey (ages 5, 6 and 7) and we will be starting visits in early May. Have met the boys via video conference and look forward to meeting them in person- they are neat kids!

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Originally Posted By Deana

My dh and I have 3 bio sons ages 7, 5, and 2. Want to adopt a girl or sib group (up to 3 kids), any racial background. Were matched with two AA kids in California last summer, have wrote about that disaster(not the kids, the foster Mom) passed up on two other matches while matched with those kids. Now we are just waiting. Have a 3 month old foster baby girl also. Would keep her in a second but doesn't look like that will happen. That's us!

Deana

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Originally Posted By Trish

I'm a hopeful single mom in Arizona. I was certified in May '00 and am hoping to adopt a girl (10 or under.)

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Originally Posted By Pam

Married with seven kids, six adopted. In order they are: Scott, 23 (adopted from Hong Kong at age 6), Mark, 23 (biological and two months younger than Scott), Julie, 16 (adopted from Korea at five months of age), Raphael, 12 (adopted from New Jersey two years ago), Rayon 8 (just arrived from Delaware for adoption), Lucas 7 (arrived at age 2 as a foster/adopt ADHD) and Nicole, 4, (arrived straight from hospital, private/open adoption...Lucas and Nicole are both from Illinois, where we used to live. From Julie on down they still live at home. We have two dogs and two cats and live in middle WIsconsin.

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Originally Posted By barki

My family lives in Oregon, on a small (small, small) farm. We have an 8 yo dau and a 2 yo son. We are adopting from our state's foster system and hope to finalize in the next millenium. (ha ha -- maybe by June?? hope springs eternal) Our son has been with us for 5 months now and is doing very well. Our dau is a birth child and is also doing very well. Having a younger sibling is much more fun to play school with than the dolls.... LOL

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Originally Posted By po

My husband and I have raised 5. We combined forces 24 years ago. The oldest 2 boys are 35, girl and boy 33, and boy 31. We have a sib. group of 13g,11g, and 9b. They have been with us 6 months. Oldest does not want to be adopted, so don't know how it will turn out. Live in Indiana which is hard state to work with.

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Hi, I am here with dh, and 3 kids, ds-9, dd-8 and dd-7. All joined our family through adoption. They have been with us 7 and 4 years. (2 adoptions)

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Originally Posted By Ashley

hi,
My husband (30 yo) and I (27 yo) are waiting on our lisence. Our homestudy is complete and we are waiting on my finger prints to return from the state (it has been almost 2 months now after one reprint). Other than that our homestudy is written and our lisence sitting on our workers desk waiting to be sent. We hope that will be this next week! So we are very excited.

We have a 2 year old bio son. He is a little miracle. I was told I couldn't carry a child more than 30 weeks gestation, and he was 39 weeks, one day. My doctors said that I could have another child biologically and not worry, but I just don't want to. The pregnancy (my second- we lost our first child at 4 months) was so difficult that I just don't want to go through that again. We also had always wanted to adopt children who had been in foster care and to be foster parents one day. We do realize that foster care and adoption are very different things, but we want to do both at some time.

We are hoping to adopt a child that is 4 years old or younger (but we woudl be happy with an older child). We can adopt two, but we don't have a mini van, so more than 2 would be too hard to transport. Boy or girl, really any needs provided they aren't too severe. And we want the child to be a good fit into our family.

We are keeping our fingers crossed that this process won't be too long for us, but we are prepared to wait. We have found to adoption process to be wonderful so far.

Ashley

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My husband(43) and I(34) have been married for 9 years and have a 4 1/2 year old bio daughter (and of course she is just precious!). Although we could have more bio children, we have decided to expand our family by adopting children out of the foster care system. I used to be an elementary school teacher, and became a stay at home mom once our daughter was born. My husband has been a mentor through the Big Brothers and Sisters program for years. Our homestudy became official last week. We plan to adopt one or two girls in the age range of 5 to 8. We are very fortunate in the fact that we have found a wonderful agency to work with here and look forward to parenting more children.

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Originally Posted By Indy

I was just driving around Keystone and saw a BMW M3 convertible with the license plate of M3PO. Was it you?(smiles).

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Originally Posted By yrand

I'm here enjoying a gorgeous day in the Rockies and smiling with the knowlege that my girls will soon be freed from the System.I am a 49 y/o black woman ( now I realize where you're coming from Belinda you're 34 keep living honey) and needless
to say I've helped raise my share of difficult kids without
killing a one. My girls mom just left her husband of 9 months and ran off with her boss.I'll keep everyone posted if the new baby comes into the system however I'm chuckling at the prospect of applying to get placed with him too. Look out MEPA I'm gonna ask the system if can I adopt a healthy white infant boy.Heh why not he's my girls half brother? Ha!ha!

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Originally Posted By Mike

I know its hard, yrand, but try not to gloat TOO much about your girls' bio mom. Remember, we shouldn't judge these people (DRIPPING with sarcasm).

I'll keep my fingers crossed and hope you get your girls soon!!