Is there something you wouldn’t do for your loved ones? You see tales on a regular basis about individuals going above and past for these they love. However one girl has opened her arms, and her coronary heart in essentially the most stunning approach by transferring heaven and earth to undertake the child of her husband’s ex-wife.
Setting The Benchmark Excessive.
And Child Makes Seven
5 years in the past, Wesley and Christie Werts met and fell in love, and determined to marry. After they obtained hitched, Christie, 48, introduced her two kids, Megan and Vance into the household, and Wesley, 45, added his two, Austin and Dakota.
In January, the Ohio six turned seven once they adopted two-year-old Levi, the child of Wesley’s ex-wife.
Sounds Like A Noon Film
It’s not one thing you hear about actually because films/TV and society have virtually skilled us to hate our accomplice’s exes, often for no good motive. However Christie Werts reveals it doesn’t need to be this manner.
She had already began the method of adopting Austin and Dakota, and the brand new household was within the planning levels of going from “Brady Bunch’ to “Yours, Mine, and Ours” by trying into fertility therapies. Then they obtained a name from Wesley’s former sister-in-law informing them Wesley’s ex had died after giving start at 33 weeks, as a consequence of problems as a consequence of her drug habit and Covid. The household had no concept she was even pregnant as a result of they hadn’t heard from her in over a yr.
The newborn was a ward of the state with no title, no start certificates, and nobody to like him.
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Unusual State of affairs
Christie recollects considering her husband knew she was going to say they needed to take him in. Not solely is Levi a sibling to 2 of their children, however Christie was raised within the foster system and regardless that her expertise was good, she is aware of that isn’t all the time the case and couldn’t permit that to occur to Levi.
Through the time the couple was trying into fertility therapies, Christie saved having a recurring dream.
“For 3 months I saved having this dream. Generally he was a child, different occasions a toddler,” she mentioned.
When she flew to Texas to fulfill with Youngster Protecting Companies, she had no concept if she was even going to have the ability to bond with him. However she needed to attempt.
The second she set her eyes on the blue-eyed, blond-haired Levi, she knew he was meant to be her son. She recollects how her daughter, Megan, was delighted to level out Levi had a button nostril, identical to her.
A Huge Transfer That Adopted
It wasn’t a simple course of both. Levi nonetheless had a father who had substance abuse points and Levi couldn’t be adopted till his rights have been terminated.
So, the household bought their dwelling in Ohio and moved the household to Texas and commenced a protracted course of that may allow them to undertake Levi.
In January 2023, after sixteen months together with 40 hours of adoptive parenting lessons, CPR lessons, tuberculosis exams, two dwelling inspections, hours upon hours of interviews, monetary checks, and background checks, Levi formally turned a part of the Werts clan.
Awkward
This entire scenario was odd for Wesley. At one level in his life, he had been in love with Levi, Austin, and Dakota’s mom. It felt unusual to him to be adopting the child his ex-wife had with one other man.
The household has no intentions of leaving Levi’s mum out of the image. “We now have no real interest in erasing her,” Christie mentioned. “In fact, he’ll find out about her, and her reminiscence shall be part of his life, and we’re nonetheless involved with the aunt and grandfather.”
Christie summed all of it up with:
“I believe we took a foul scenario and turned it right into a love story. We did all of it for the kids, for Levi, and we needed our youngsters to have their sibling.”
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