The Courtroom

When you adopt, to make it final, you have to go to a judge. Which means you have to go to court. And personally, the less I go to court, the better.

When we adopted Sports Dude we were scheduled to go to a certain judge, but he was busy with another case. So another judge offered to do it. A lot of our friends and family came with us. Bob and I got to sit at a table in front of the judge. Bob loved the spinning chairs, and kept twisting and driving me nuts. The judge had us introduce ourselves at the table. I remember having to say who I was, and that I was Sports Dude's sister.

This judge was so nice. Later she had Bob and I come up to the platform thingy with her. She gave one of us her gavel and the other, a toy to try to keep Sports Dude from crying. Afterwards she came down and took pictures with us and took all of our picture for us. It was a lot of fun.

So when we adopted Miss Bossy, I was pretty confident of myself since I had had such a good experience before. We finalized Miss Bossy's adoption on a national adoption finalization day. The judge was really nice, but he wasn't as friendly as the judge for Sports Dude's finalization.

At the finalization, we received a certificate, (I think), that showed Sports Dude and Miss Bossy were now ours. We also received a video of the entire finalization. (Hey, did you know that the cameras turn towards noise? So everytime someone talked, the camera was on them.)

Don't be scared to go to an adoption finalization! I think the judges enjoy having happy families come in.