Misty,

Thank you so much for sharing your positive story! I've been hearing
a lot of negatives from family and friends who feel that fostering to
adopt will only lead to getting kids with "problems." I'm of the
opinion after teaching that no child is problem-free, whether adopted
or born to you.

My husband and I are both really excited. We begin our classes in
February and will probably wait until they are finished to complete
our home study, because we are moving around that time and don't want
to have to do it twice.

I'd love to hear any and all experiences you have to share! I hope
that there will be lots of good (and not-so-good) stories in this
group to help get us a little closer to prepared.

Thank you for your warm welcome!
~Alisha~

--- In OASIS-Adopt@yahoogroups.com, Misty Moore <mnmoore3@...> wrote:
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> Welcome, Alisha.
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> CONGRATS on your weight loss!!!!! My husband, Todd & I adopted our
daughters from foster care. Their adoptions were final in June 2005.
They were in foster care with my parents when we met them. They were
6 & 8 years old at the time of their adoptions. Feel free to ask me
any questions you may have regardign foster adopt. Just wait until
you get your kids and you start experiencing all of the "firsts" you
experience with them. Ours have been amazing. Probably one of the
most amazing firsts with our daughters was their first plane ride. My
youngest could not contain herself. She was VERY excited. I have a
thousand positive stories if you are ever interested in hearing
positive things. Don't get me wrong, there are also negative things,
but our positives FAR outweigh the negatives.
>
> Again, welcome.
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