My wife and I have been in the process of adopting a child since last May. We put this dream on the back burner at the end of October, when our parents were killed in a tractor trailer accident in North Carolina. Our parents had become best friends after my wife and I were married, living less than a mile from one another.
At the end of March, we attended an adoption party thrown by Children's Home Society in West Palm Beach, FL. There we both fell for a young girl who happens to look like she could have been our biological daughter. Her name is Chelsea and she just turned 11 years old. She has straight red hair, green eyes and freckles. There were two other families interested in adopting Chelsea as well. On April 18th, we received a call from the director at CHS, telling us that we were matched with Chelsea. We have started getting together with her for our supervised visits the past two Fridays, but tomorrow, we get to spend the day with her. Both of us are VERY excited about this new addition to our home. I just wanted to share our great news with all of you.

FANTASTIC!

That's great news for ya. I hope all the best for you, your wife and your new family member!

Congratulations that is great news for everyone! May the future bring even more happiness to all.

Outstanding news - I'm very happy for you!!

Congrats!!!! Great news :D

I am sure she is happy to have a family now. Congrats.

Congrats, kids bring a whole new outlook to your life

That's GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations! :occasion2:

And just think - no changing diapers. Bonus!

Definitely keep us posted on the whole thing.

Matthew

That is some of the best news I've heard lately! You just fixed someones world! God Bless you folks.

Congrats! Nothing like parenthood.

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Excellent way of saying it. Parenthood is the greatest blessing in life. The very best to all of you!

I'm happy for you and for the girl. Congradulations.

Thanks everyone! We are all really excited. This weekend is the first weekend we will be spending as a family (don't have to take our soon-to-be daughter to her foster family until Sunday). We are hoping to have her with us permenantly by the first weekend in June.

I bet you are so excited you are beaming. What are the plans for the weekend?

Matthew

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

You guys are really special for adopting She's very lucky to have you and vise versa

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CONGRATS!

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The big thing we are going to do is take her out to the drag strip to watch me race. They also have a gokart track out there that we will get time for her to race those as well. She has never seen drag racing and is excited about it. I don't think our soon-to-be daughter really knows what I do for a living. She keeps bragging that her new Dad is a race car driver (I guess having 2 cars set up for drag racing would give her that appearance). LOL! We can't wait...couple more hours before we pick her up for the weekend. We are all stoked!!

What great news! And kudos to you for adopting!

Great story Neil..

We are all very happy for you and your daughter!!!!

Gary

Just got word from Children's Home Society...Chelsea moves in forever with us on Saturday, June 7th! We can't wait!! No more taking her back to the foster mom's house on Sundays.

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That's awesome! I bet everyone is so excited. And just think, you'll have all summer together to do stuff before she has to go back to school in the fall.

Matthew

Congratulations!!!!

It is always a greatn thing to know folks who open their hearts and homes to those less fortunate. Family is not always defined as blood relatives as your adoption shows. May you, your wife, Chelsea and family. Congratulations! BTW when does she get a C4?

Congratulations, Dad!