And Another Step Closer...

Today was another Permanency Planning meeting for Kiki, and the goal is adoption by us! Yay! We figured this would happen, but we were nervous beforehand because there are always nagging doubts about what could happen. I had some sleeplessness last night pondering the awful idea of Kiki being taken from us. We still have about two weeks left in the 90-day window in which Kiki's biological family can intervene, and then it's up to her caseworker to start submitting the paperwork to get the adoption process rolling. Ideally we would finalize the adoption before the end of the year, but that's probably being a little too optimistic. But if we hadn't been even just a little hopeful about Kiki when we first welcomed her into our home, we wouldn't be where we are today. It's only by the grace of God that we have been able to do this, and each day I am in awe of how much He has blessed our family with our three beautiful little children!