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We are Canadian.  We have chosen to proceed with an international adoption.  Although, not an international country that most people expect, as we are adopting from the USA, our next door neighbour. One thing we were told early on is that if we chose to a domestic adoption, the local agency runs you through the whole process as they coordinate the entire adoption process.  However, by choosing international adoption, we are pretty… Read More

Late last week our mailbox was filled with all kinds of required approval papers – our criminal record checks, our intervention checks, our provincial approval. Virtually everything arrived on the same day, which meant there was nothing delaying our submission. Well, except us, we still needed to finish our paperwork about our family lives, our personalities and all our decisions related to our future child, including the ever perplexing race and substance… Read More