• Chapter 7 – The Assessment Starts Now

    October 2, 2020 Lew

    We are now a couple of weeks on from Gemma’s last visit where we properly restarted the process and this morning feels so exciting, as opposed to the feelings we had at this point first time around, where we were completely full of nerves and anxiety about what it was all going to entail. But,…

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  • Chapter 6 – Here we go again

    July 21, 2020 Richard and Lewis

    It’s finally the day that we have been waiting for since we moved back, the day where Gemma is coming round to see us but this time it will be the third house she has visited us in, which we completely know is not ideal but we are settled here and happy. The most worrying…

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  • Chapter 5 – London, did you miss us?

    July 21, 2020 Richard and Lewis

    It’s been a month since we have been living back in London and it turns out moving back into the house, we were renting out was the best idea ever. We were able to move back gradually giving the boy a longer time to get used to the idea and I have even been driving…

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  • Chapter 4 – Moving Back to London

    July 21, 2020 Richard and Lewis

    The decision has been made, and Rich does seem like a massive weight has been lifted, the constant traveling back and forth was too much for Rich but until you are actually living in the situation you will never really know exactly what it is like. We owned a holiday home near to where we…

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  • Chapter 3 – What to do next, BIG decisions

    July 21, 2020 Richard and Lewis

    So, it’s Friday afternoon and we’ve officially had the paperwork through from Gemma for a couple of weeks and we have completely filled in the forms, but we haven’t yet sent them off. After having Gemma round to talk about the process and it sort of bringing to light Rich’s worry of not having our…

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  • Chapter 2 – Gemma is coming to see us AGAIN

    July 21, 2020 Richard and Lewis

    So today is Monday and we have decided that the time is right to give Gemma our social worker the call about our decision to hopefully adopt for the second time. We did wonder what she would initially say but we between the two of us, we hope she will be excited. We did and…

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  • Chapter 1 – Do you want another child?

    July 21, 2020 Richard and Lewis

    It’s been nearly two years since the boy has been living with us and we can honestly say that deciding to start a family and adopting him, is the best decision we have ever made. All the initial worries about going through the process, the stresses during it and some of the feeling like a…

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