Adoption Story CAF 3/?
It has been a year since you welcomed [child #1] into your family and both you and [LI] love being parents, while at times its very hard considering you both work demanding jobs and with you having been promoted up a position to [insert promotion position], but thanks to help from your mother, [blank], you know [child #1] is always in good hands even if you and [LI] are busy with work.
However, later that week you, [LI] and [child #1] attend his family's yearly reunion. You're staying with his parents, [blank] and [blank], while you do so. You love hanging out with all of his siblings, [roll for siblings, genders and names], their spouses and all your nieces and nephews as [LI] is the youngest child in his/her family. They're always talking to you guys ans giving advice about child rearing, relationships, etc and while irksome at times you know it all comes from a good and loving place. Later, when speaking to [pick a sibling], they ask you if you plan to have anymore kids or if you guys just plan to have [child #1]. You offhandedly comment that you would like more kids, but are unsure when you and [LI] intend to look into further adoption and go back to talking about other things, but the thought does seem to stay with you a bit.
The night after the reunion and after coming home from work and putting [child #1] to bed, you and [LI] are reading in bed when [LI] brings back up the fact that you both still would like to adopt internationally and that that can take quite a bit of time. You agree with [LI] having known other people in the adoption community in online support groups who have waited years, you know you just got very lucky with [child #1]. You both agree to go to bed and place a call with your case worker and agency tomorrow about paper work considering the likely occurrence of a two to four year wait to be matched up with a child.
The next day on your lunch break you place a call to your agent, [favorite exotic names, common last name], and she agrees it would be good to start working through the papers since it could take some time. [Agent] explains which countries they have current associations with and informs you that you and [LI] need to pick one to start the process. We chit chat a little more about how [child #1] is doing before hanging up and heading back to work that day, extremely excited.
That night you ask [LI]'s oldest sibling and their spouse - [Blank] and [blank] - to watch [child #1] so you and [LI] can decide on which country you want to adopt from. After leaving [child #1] you go out and have a nice dinner together for the first time in awhile and savor it, making some small work talk before hitting to harder subjects. You discuss some of the places that intrigue you both, you make it down to your top three locations, [country of choice], [roll] and [country of choice], eventually you end up deciding on [country you rolled] because [insert creative story].
Later that night you and [LI] send an email off to your agent to get the ball rolling on the process. The next day you pick up [child #1] from [LI]'s sibling and feel refreshed and excited about your decision. Over the next couple of months, both you and [LI] work through the paper work, have your home visits and then hit the dry spell you knew would hit, but you fill it with exciting things including your first family vacation with [child #1].
It takes some time for you to decide, but you end up picking [roll]. You and [LI] pick a less crowded week to take off, not around traditional holidays and then spend said week with your family making memories and taking a ton of photos. [Describe your vacation, what did you do, favorite or least favorite moment, etc].
Sadly, even after that you still haven't heard much back from your agent other then she's still looking to match you and [LI] with a child. You try not to feel disheartened by the time frame and continue to enjoy life as it is now. You get into a routine again with [LI] and [child #1], and your monthly discussions with your case worker to check in until it's been about a year and a half since you put in the paper work and [child #1] is just a month away from turning three! You can't believe ho big they've gotten.
While shopping for themed thing for [child #1]'s party, they're having a [roll] theme, you get a call from your agent. They've found a match! You ask agent if you can call them back in a minute as your out and not at a computer to recieve the file and they agree. You rush through check out and quickly call [LI] telling them they need to get home; you've been matched! You throw everything into the car and drive home and thankfully [LI] is there as well and you call back your agent who informs you that you've been matched with [use chart] and you couldn't be more thrilled. You speak with her for another hour before she sends the file and you open it up, look through pictures and feel your heart melt. You and [LI] browse through it a little more before leaving to go pick up [child #1] from a day with [LI]'s parents.
You get home and [LI] makes dinner and you bring up having a younger sibling to [child #1] and they seem excited by the idea which eases some of your tension and you call back your agent and talk through the process, you set up to go do a first visit in two months when you'll be off for Christmas break from work. You, [LI], your mother and [child #1] fly off to [country] and meet your precious babies, they have [blank] hair and [blank] eyes, for the first time, they're adorable and down right perfect and you fall in love with them, at the end of the week and a half when you have to say good, you can't imagine anything more painful, but your mother and [LI] help you get through it. You'll be returning for them soon enough.
As soon as your family gets home, you start to set up a nursery for your little one(s). You get [child #1] involved with painting and helping to set it all up and the next thing you know its been another month and you and [LI] travel back to [country] to go pick up your little one(s) for good, to take home, and when you arrive, [LI]'s whole family, your mother and [child #1] are there with all the food, gifts and babysitting offers you could ever want; of course what they're all eagerly awaiting is news your glad to give as you inform them of the names you've chosen for your newest addition(s), [insert name(s)], are welcome joyfully into the [your and li's surname] clan.
Please list your family!
Mother's Name:
First/Middle [Your Maiden/Surname Name]
Mother-in-Law and Farther-in-Law Names:
(Surname matches [LI])
Mother - First/Middle
Father - First/Middle
Roll for # of Siblings for [LI]:
1. 4
2. 5
3. 3
4. 6
5. 9
6. 5
Roll for Siblings Genders:
Odd - Female Even - Male
Roll for Siblings # of Kids:
1. 4
2. 3
3. 5
4. 8
5. 6
6. 5
Siblings Name:
(Surname is either same as [LI] or UTY)
Siblings Spouses Names:
(Surname, Matches Spouse)
Nieces/Nephews Names
Adoptive Country:
1. China
2. Korea
3. Ukraine
4. Ethiopia
5. Your Choice
6. India
Vacation Location:
1. Disneyland Park - California
2. Disney World - Florida
3. Hershey Park - Pennsylvania
4. The Atlantis - Bahamas
5. Sesame Place - Pennsylvania
6. Your Choice
Party Theme:
1. Lion King
2. Frozen
3. Safari
4. Super Heroes
5. Despicable Me
6. Scooby Doo
Child Details
(All Children have common looks from their country of origin)
China - Twin Girls, 1 year old
Korea - Baby Boy, infant
Ukraine - Twin Boys, 2 years old
Ethiopia - Baby Girl, 2 years old
Your Choice - Boy/Girl Twins, infant
India - Baby Girl, 1 year old
Nursery
Child(ren)'s Name(s):
Middle Name is after opposite gender parent.