~Foster Care~

Yesterday was an exciting day for me. I have always wanted to do foster care. I am really lucky to have a husband who is on board with this as well. I first attended the orientation meeting back in March. We then sat around thinking weather or not we should go ahead and proceed. After a month we decided to go ahead. We filled out the right papers, had a meeting with the foster care licensor, got finger printed, added beds to our home. Last night we met with the licensor again and completed the process for getting licensed.

Now that does not mean we will be placed right away with a child. Of course we pray God's timing is right when we are placed with a child and that he has their best interest and ours in mind. Its kind of an exciting thing but at the same time its a tough and sad thing. Many of these children come from homes where they are abused or neglected. We would never want that for any child. We are planning to take only one child at a time but did have the licensor license us for two just in case their is ever a sibling group that needs a home. We could then consider it. We can care for children newborn-7 years old. Foster care parents are allowed to set the age of children they prefer to work with.

I also wanted to note that on July 30, I sent an email to inquire about a child on the MN ADOPT website looking for a home. Our worker (licensor) said for some reason its taking awhile for them to get back to us. They have to email info to the worker because of confidentiality reasons. All we know so far is this child is available to be adopted by a MN family, he likes pizza, he wears glasses and is 6 years old. Hopefully we will have more information on him soon. Its so hard to wait and be patient. Our worker did show us a map yesterday displaying how many different people and families a worker has to deal with. It made sense why it takes so long.

That is it for now.