'We Both Just Took A Big Breath': How One Family's Adoption Journey Ended, Finally, In The Pandemic.

Arlington TX

04 October, 2021

6:36 PM

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By Alexis Allison, Fort Worth Report October 4, 2021 The adoptions took months longer than planned, so when all was said and done, Courtney Ledet gathered the myriad unused forms with which she had documented the minutiae of her foster children's lives — paper cuts and Christmas presents and visitors and road trips — and threw them away. "It's meticulous," she said. "Every time you give a child a Tylenol, or you put Neosporin on a paper cut, you have to notate it. Every time you put hydrogen peroxide on a skinned knee, you have to notate it. It's crazy. Things that you would think, 'This is normal. This is everyday life.' You have to write it down." The paperwork was one metric by which the Ledets could measure their waiting. As the pandemic stretched an already arduous process, fostering to adopt, for months, visitations with their two children's biological mom was another. The Ledets live in Fort Worth. The visitations took place in Mineral Wells. Car rides were somber: Joseph, the youngest, would cry for the designated hour each week. To read the full article, click here. Fort Worth Report is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that produces factual, in-depth journalism about city and county government, schools, healthcare, business, and arts and culture in Tarrant County. Always free to read; subscribe to newsletters, read coverage or support our newsroom at fortworthreport.org.