a long time ago, some time after I moved over to France, I had two little girls jumping around me screaming and during a silent moment (which was very rare), I was asked if I would become their new dad. A question I had not thought about yet.

Some years have passed and they asked me straight if I did not want to adopt them. And actually, thinking about it, I said: yes. Why not? They are already "my" girls. I am the "dad" they had for some time now. So I went on to face the challenge of adopting these 2 beauties
What I did not expect though, where all the road-blocks that I had to overcome. First of all, Citizenship. Luckily I had lived more than 5 years in france and married their mother in the mean-time. This eased the process of me becoming a french citizen to make sure my request for adoption of the girls would not be straight rejected by the court.
What I had not anticipated though, was this straight disapproval of my "old" family regarding this project. But who are they, not taking any part in our lives and always trying to control what I do, to interfere with our happiness?
In the end, after many month of struggles looking like the Twelve Labours of Heracles, I finally received the official court approval (papers) that I am now dad of the two most amazing girls I know. And that - is worthy of an

Achievement Unlocked: Dad of 2