Finalization, finally

[Pepper]

Tomorrow morning we go to the courthouse to finalize DS2's adoption, more than a year after I brought him home. Coincidentally it is also DS1's birthday.

I had posted before that DS1 did not really like having a little brother... I'm happy to say that at long last, DS1 seems to have come around and dare I say it, even seems to enjoy his sibling. That took almost as long as finalization!

[wellyes]

:cheerleader1::cheerleader1: Congratulations!

[WolfpackMom]

woohoo! Congratulations!

[ThreeofUs]

congratulations!

[DietCokeLover]

How wonderful!

[blue]

Congrats on the adoption finalizing tomorrow :yay::boogie:!

[salsah]

Congrats!

[bigpassport]

Yaaaayyyyyyyy! :yay: Yay for you, yay for DS2, and yay for DS1!

[hillview]

Hurray!! Congratulations!!
:cheerleader1::cheerleader1::love5::love5:

[MoJo]

So happy for all of you! Happy birthday & happy adoption day! :applause:

[Puddy73]

Congratulations! What a happy day for your family!

[Gena]

Congratulations! What a happy day.

I've said this before, but as an adult adoptee I love how finalizations are a celebration these days. When I was adopted, my parents and I never went to court; the finalization was done in the judge's chambers with just the agency representative and social worker. Afterwards, my parents got a call saying, "It's done" and the official paperwork showed up sometime later. It was all so shameful and covert back then. I'm so happy things are different now.

[Pepper]

Wow, thanks for all of the kind wishes! Everything went well this morning, as expected. DS1 even managed to hold himself together so we didn't have to do any major child-wrangling :-) We took the kids out for breakfast afterward, and ordered them banana pancakes with chocolate chips and peanut butter sauce as a special treat....they both ignored the pancakes COMPLETELY but ate up all of the bacon. Go figure!

[crl]

Congratulations!

Catherine

[MamaSnoo]

What beautiful news for your family, about the finalization and your DS1's love for his brother!

[MontrealMum]

Congratulations :cheerleader1: