Finally getting our girls!!!

Oh...my...gosh! Finally, our three-year adventure is about to come to an end (or rather an exciting new beginning)! This post is for those who've read of our struggle with Panama for 2 years, and then our struggle with US foster care over the past year. Well, finally we're getting our girls. We're flying to Massachusetts to pick up our Puerto Rican beauties, K (7), A (6), and L (3), on Sunday morning (THIS Sunday!), and will fly home with them Monday morning. I have spent all day on the phone with the Mass. children's services office (with their social worker, her boss, the office's travel manager, etc.) working out the details. Although our seats won't be in the same row, I'll bet there will be a kindly adult willing to trade a seat rather than having to sit next to a frightened, screaming 3-yr-old! ;) It was looking like their social worker wouldn't have time to get away from her workload to bring them to our state until mid-July (or later), so I left a message yesterday telling her we'd be willing to fly out there ourselves to get the girls (we've flown there to visit them twice already since April) if it would help. Everyone at the office was in agreement that that would be best. (Otherwise the girls were going to have to go to respite care for 2 weeks while their foster mom was visiting family). If anyone is thinking of foster care adoption, the Springfield, MA office is the way to go! These ladies are so helpful, and they have an overabundance of Puerto Rican-American as well as African-American children who need loving families. (As usual, the majority of adoptive/caucasian parents only want caucasian infants). It has been frustrating to wait so long (we were selected for the girls in January, but had to wait for the ICPC/Interstate paperwork to be completed), but we were persistent and made alot of the calls ourselves rather than waiting for busy social workers to find the time. Apparently it has paid off! Rebecca :D