As we look at the binders of information we've tried to keep organized on this process and learn more and more about different forms and records that will need to be filed, it's amazing how much goes into making sure we're all doing our best at preparing for this adoption. The agency has four different files for us already! To offset the necessary bureaucracy with something fun, Tiffany has been diligent in compiling pictures, tales and advice from grandparents to create Meadow's baby book.
When Tiffany was much younger, she adopted dolls called Cabbage Patch Kids. As some of her old keepsakes are surfacing in preparation for a new daughter in the family, Tiffany's "kids" showed up, papers and all. We got a good laugh at how some things don't change in a person. Personality traits are just more developed.
This morning, Josh found this in the bag of Cabbage Patch Kids keepsakes:
True to form, there was also a "Baby Book: 7 Pages of Neat Things About Kay Cathy". It's a good thing that the process we're going through now will be better documented than on colored construction paper, but it's still fun to see how this openness to adoption and the organization required to try to keep up with the process might have started decades ago!
