Adoption: Plans For Transition

On the way home I started on my lists of things to do.  I had so much to do it was almost overwhelming. When I finally arrived home I immediately got working on "stuff". We had a room to get completely ready, a boys room to get ready and a trip to plan. My mind kept jumping from thing to thing! I was so excited!!

My stepdaughter always lived with her mom so I never got the pleasure of setting up a room just for a girl.  So this was my first time!! We got a twin bed for her.  I purchased laced curtains and purchased a comforter to match.  It is so pretty! Soft pink and green look so good together.  Her bed was brass with ceramic painted balls on the headboard.  I would go in and just look at it occasionally trying to think is there anything else I can do it make it look more girly.  All this work only to find out that she is a tomboy!  Her worst favorite color is pink!

For the boys room we were able to get two beds that match.  They actually were bunk beds but we decided to put them both on the ground so there would be no arguing on who will get the top bunk. That was one of the smartest decisions we made! We were able to get an extra dresser for him.

In a way I was thankful for the 7 day waiting period because that gave us a few days to prepare for their home coming.  You would think that we had all this time to prepare but in reality these kids could have gone to someone else's home so easy.  Sometimes people wait a couple years for kids.  But now they are coming here for sure and we have 7 days to get our act together!

I called the foster care provider.  I was under the impression that the transition needed to be a slow transition.  I was planning on one weekend staying up there, the next weekend they come here to our home and then that last weekend move them down.  The foster parent was thinking it should be a little quicker than that. Sometime during the transition she wanted to throw a goodbye party for them. I then called the adoption worker in Salem and she said that this needs to be done in a quicker fashion.  

In the next post I will be telling you about our trip, where we stayed and our first time laying eyes on eachother.  So stay tuned!!

To be continued...................................