I dropped out of posting/lurking on here for the past month, to head to Texas and complete an adoption plan with my wife, for our newborn son. Now I just need some Subaru onesies He was born 12/13/14 @ 7lbs & 20.75" Looking forward to getting the carseat into the WRX and helping him sleep soundly
Congrats! How was the adoption process? I've considered doing something like that further down the road, similar to what an old friend did and rescuing a child out of an orphanage in another country.
Congrats on your new son!!!! We just had our first child and she just turned 5 weeks! Prepare yourself for an amazing journey, and good luck!!!! -Josh
It was actually pretty straight forward. The worst part was dealing with the bio-grandmother. She is, was, and will eternally be bat**** crazy. Otherwise, the paperwork took a long time to put together, but the match only took about 2 months. We expected about 7-9months, as the average....so it went faster that expected. Adopting international is its own crazinesss. There is basically a bribe fee schedule that is wrapped into the total cost. We started out that way, going through Russia, but after the Magnitsky fiasco, we decided to go domestic.
I think that the bat**** crazy part comes with being a grandmother. I'm in the middle of a similar situation, but thankfully I'm not the adopting family.
