Hello, I'm new here but not new to adoption :)

[Nonnimouse]

Hello everyone, I only recently discovered his forum and have been lurking for a few days, but I thought it was time I registered and jumped in :)
I'm Nonni (not my real name) and have 4 primary-school aged children, three of them are birth children and one, our youngest son, is adopted and has a learning disability. We are now hoping to adopt again and are looking for another child with a learning disability, and we are due to go to panel next month. Very nervous about Panel, as our homestudy has been full of swings and roundabouts, but hopefully it will go well (our sw seems to think so.)
Look forward to meeting everyone!

Hi Nonni and welcome. Sounds like you have your hands full :)

Hi Nonni you should pretty amazing to me.

Hi Nonni, I'm Kewcumber (also not my real name) - I have one sone who's 8 now adopted around 1.

I think by the time you've got to panel the swings and roundabouts have generally been smoothed out - except in my case where I wasn't approved! Waited another two months but to be fair they had said they thought there would be an issue with my medical (long story) so my formal approval had to wait for a second medical so I didn't actually had to attend the second panel date it was really a formality.

Good luck with panel.

Wow Nonni, that's Olympian parenting! Though my grandmother always says it gets easier after the first four...

I'm Devora, I have been on MN since I used to haunt the conception boards here about ten years ago. I now have two primary school aged daughters, the youngest is adopted.

Hi Nonni and welcome

My name here is Lilka, but 'in real life' I'm more commonly known as "mum, mum, mum, MUM, MUM, MUUUUUMMMM" (spoken to infinity and beyond). Or alternately "Oi!", "HEY! LOOK AT ME", and this evening, I'm "idiot" . I think I might actually have a proper name, but I'm buggered if I can remember it now

I have 3 kids, all adopted. One primary school aged son, and two adult daughters - one 18 yo at home with me, and one much older daughter who has blessed with me with a son-in-law and two grandaughters with babysitting fun attached, and not blessed me so much with a massive pile of smelly grandbaby's nappies and vomit!

DD2 has a learning disability, which I honestly find one of the easier things about her to parent alongside. Sadly I think you will be inundated with profiles of children with no other potential matches, but I hope this means you can quickly find your child!

Best of luck at panel! SW's won't take you all that way unless they are confident that panel will pass you and I'm sure it will go well

Hey nonni I am miracle and I am birth mum to my gorgeous littllemiracle

Hi Nonni - I'm FamiliesShareGerms and have one birth son (8) and one adopted DD (4). Welcome!!

Hi. I'm TheSarcastic and I am on here because I am adopted and I am just looking at starting the process to adopting (have two birth children).

Wow. Welcome. You Re in good company here.
I'm a novice mummy 11 months in with our 2 yr old LO. Xxx

Ask away, Maryz

Thank you everyone...
I know I'm in good company, I can tell this forum is filled with lovely people!