A court date for us!

I seem to be doing really badly at updating my blog. I don't think it's because I've outgrown it but more because I seem to be so busy at the minute.

Hello if you are here from ICLW... have a look around but briefly - I'm nh, I usually teach secondary school science (presently on adoption leave). I live in Yorkshire, UK, with my husband M, and our boy - called boy-o. We also have a dog, a cat and several fish. Today we've been to court to celebrate the adoption of boy-o - which has been a magical day.

So today... we heard last week as I've already posted that the adoption had been approved and we were legal as of last week. But today was for us! We went into town, along with my parents and M's parents and met at court our social worker and boy-o's social worker. We sat in a court room, and waited.....luckily I had put a little magnetic drawing board into my bag for a certain young man.

After a little while 3 magistrates came in, and said introduced themselves, and asked who were the parents and of course they spotted boy-o. They asked a few questions about how we'd found the process, so I was able to praise the adoption team. Boy-o was presented with a book, I got flowers and we were given a certificate saying that we'd been - although it has no legal meaning, it's still lovely to have.

We then had photos taken. Boy-o, M and I behind the desk, then joined by grandparents, then social workers and finally the magistrates. Lots of photos.

To celebrate we went out for a meal - except GD (my dad) as he had to work :-(... and then this afternoon M and I (with my mum) went to the nearest Build-A-Bear Workshop and my boy picked out a cuddly monkey which we stuffed and then made a birth certificate for with today's date on - so they both have a certificate with the same date on! They are presently in bed cuddling up to each other!



It seems right to have ended with flowers. The real adoption process started back in Feb when I left school - with many flowers and it was formalised last week and today - with more flowers. We were also given flowers from Church to celebrate boy-o's adoption.