We drove over three hours to meet them as we felt so passionately these were our children, we wanted to do everything in our power to convince the decision makers they should choose us! It felt like our life was literally in their hands. We knew it would be couples as the family finder was clear they would only consider couples for three children, but obviously we knew no more.Īfter being shortlisted and reading the children’s Child Permanence Reports (CPR’s) we asked for a meeting with who we felt were the most important people at that point – the children’s social worker and their family finder. We immediately contacted the children’s family finding team via Link Maker, writing out a detailed and heartfelt message listing all the reasons we felt we really could be the right adoptive parents to these little people.Īfter what felt like forever, but was in fact only a few weeks, we were ‘shortlisted’ which meant as far as we knew, at least one other couple were being considered, in truth, it was probably many more. That would have been a very bitter pill to swallow.
If we were not the right parents for them, then we would change our life plans and try to reconcile not being parents. We had been Family Finding for almost a year and a half and were close to giving up, but we both knew that these three little ones could and should become our children. Having always thought two children… one dark and rainy evening after a particularly difficult day at work we saw our children’s profiles. This gave us the flexibility we needed and wanted to stretch ourselves and to really consider the sort of parents we could be and the children we might parent. We had also been approved to adopt without specific parameters so we didn’t have the restriction of a specific age range or number of children. We always thought two would be a great number for us as we had two spare bedrooms, so our children’s genders were never going to be a factor. We began our journey always wanting to adopt siblings. Life is louder, busier, messier, more expensive and 100% more wonderful.
Life literally changed completely the night the three of them moved in, and nothing has been the same since. So, we are a gay couple who adopted our three wonderful children when they were all aged under four.
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