This has been "in the works" for awhile, but now everything is official.
I used to be the aunt of one niece and one nephew. I am now the aunt of two nieces and four nephews! Wow!
My sister and her husband have adopted 3 boys and 1 girl. The four are a sibling unit, but they were split up when they went in to foster care. My sis adopted the lot of them! They were in foster homes in Houston, Texas, but now they are all home on my sister's farm. Youngest is my new niece, who is 6. My new nephews are 8, 11, and 13.
I have talked to all of them on the phone but have not met them yet. We are trying not to overwhelm them. The kids are going through a lot of adjustments, going from the streets of Houston to rural North Carolina. As one might expect, they have not had enough attention paid to them with regard to their diet, medical care, or emotional needs so as a family we hope to all work together to help build some better changes in to the children's lives, but to not change things so quickly that they cannot manage.
Its really neat for me, because chose to not have any children of my own...but now I've gone from having an extended family to having a large extended family!
I just wanted to share with everyone.
I used to be the aunt of one niece and one nephew. I am now the aunt of two nieces and four nephews! Wow!
My sister and her husband have adopted 3 boys and 1 girl. The four are a sibling unit, but they were split up when they went in to foster care. My sis adopted the lot of them! They were in foster homes in Houston, Texas, but now they are all home on my sister's farm. Youngest is my new niece, who is 6. My new nephews are 8, 11, and 13.
I have talked to all of them on the phone but have not met them yet. We are trying not to overwhelm them. The kids are going through a lot of adjustments, going from the streets of Houston to rural North Carolina. As one might expect, they have not had enough attention paid to them with regard to their diet, medical care, or emotional needs so as a family we hope to all work together to help build some better changes in to the children's lives, but to not change things so quickly that they cannot manage.
Its really neat for me, because chose to not have any children of my own...but now I've gone from having an extended family to having a large extended family!
I just wanted to share with everyone.
