Well we are all officially in Texas full time. We cleared housing right after we finalized the adoptions! Then the new Gardner family headed to The Lonestar state. We will miss our Irwin family dearly but it was time to say goodbye to CA! It was such a relief to finally have the judge say we were a family but it was also strangely anticlimactic. No more foster parent paperwork, no more social workers, no more homestudies, no more invasive questions..... Whew what a relief!
So now we r in El Paso and I really like it here so far but I have been a bit anti social and have just recently started making an effort to get involved. Ron made the E 8 list and is already a 1st Sgt, he is excited about his new job and is enjoying his own office!
There have been alot of changes and I think the reality of it all is setting in and can be a bit overwhelming at times. Now that the chaos of all the red tape of foster parenting and adopting is over we r trying to settle in as just a regular family. The rollercoaster has stopped but we haven't gotten over the nausea!
We also finalized the permanent guardianship with parental rights for Wyatt and will soon be embarking on another adoption journey very soon. So in less than two years we went from 3 children to 6..... The journey has not been easy, nor has it always brought out the best in us. But for better or worse this is where God has led us. He gave us the support we needed even being so far from family, he gave us wonderful friends who without there support we never would have made it this far. They know who they r and I will never forget them!!! Our family even being thousands of miles away still supported us any and every way they could, most importantly accepting these new additions wholly and completely into our family!! So in ending this chapter begins a journey of a newly complete family and who knows where God will lead us next but I for one trust in his wisdom and love for us!!
