To Infinity and Beyond

So it's official! We've finalized with Theia and that means all of our kids are really really ours! It's such a good feeling and although I knew she wasn't going anywhere, and I knew we really were a family, somehow this does actually feel different. Not because she's more ours but we're more hers.

I have been thinking a lot about what sometimes happens, how sometimes sibling sets have to be split up, at times it just isn't possible to keep them all together. Social Services does try their hardest to place separated kids with families that are willing to have contact with each other so the kids can grow up at least knowing each other. It is really sad to think that had we not been able to take Theia, and moved to Lincoln like we're planning to in the next couple years, Claudia and Joe would have grown up and had part of their story be "Yeah, I'm adopted and I have another bio sister that lives out in California some where, but I don't really know her."

Darren and I haven't talked about it much, but for me at least this does solidify my feelings that if the bio-mom were to have more children, even if not with the same dad, and if they were removed as well, I really would want to take them too.

For now it's just us, which considering there is five of us is plenty. It's amazing being able to say 'adopted', not 'being adopted'. Everything is final and done and it really does feel different, and in ways I wasn't really aware it would be, but it definitely feels good.