Forever Family

I've been wanting to post for some time to provide an update and to wrap things up on the blog, but it's been difficult to make the time to do it.  Usually when I start, I end up with a toddler in my lap!  We reached a milestone this summer which closes the book on our adoption story.  In June we received papers from the circuit court of Oregon that makes our adoption final.  Sam is now legally ours!  We also received a note from Holt (our adoption agency) saying that it was a pleasure working with us and if we needed anything else to let them know.  What a weird feeling to be done!

For Sam it means that his journey to find a permanent family is over too.  We are actually the fourth family he's had - birth mom and two foster families before us.  A term that Holt uses a lot is "Forever Family".  Even though we did not conceive him, we are his real mom and dad now, and will be forever.