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It’s official, we are through every single required step necessary for us to adopt!!  We have successfully navigated the international pre-adoption process! We have been approved in our province in Canada for a while now.  But now we are also through all the necessary steps in the USA as well!  We have jumped through every single hoop (no matter how ridiculous it seemed) and our profile book is done! We are now… Read More

An important part of our adoption journey in the USA has been to choose a lawyer. One of the biggest differences between adoption in Canada and the USA seems to be the involvement of lawyers. In Canada, social workers do almost everything, with a few lawyers just signing off on the final paperwork and processing the legal stuff through the court system. In the USA, lawyers actually match birth mothers/families and adoptive… Read More