Skip to main content

Almost Open: Where We are in the Foster Process

As my body continues to defy what it is supposed to do we are soldiering on in the process to open our home to foster children once again.

For any of you who have gone through this process or have close friends who have done so, you know that the state is very slow with these things. You'd think with all the kids who need placements they would step it up and go faster, but that is not the case. So, we are still in the process of waiting. Seems like most of adult life is about waiting. Which makes it hard not to get lost in the future and the what-ifs.

As for now we are waiting on our resource worker to come visit our home to give the final stamp of approval before we are officially open again. All the paperwork has been turned in. All the continuing education hours have been finished. The room is ready for babies. The dog is ready for babies, too, for that matter!

Not much needed to be done to the room, as I mentioned before, we were keeping the empty crib as a faithful sign that we trusted in God to one day fill it; maybe now it will get filled. Perhaps not with just one baby, but with many babies who will be entrusted into our care. I can easily say right now that I am satisfied knowing that I will potentially just be a "middle-mom" for many children who may come into our home. It's an easy thing to say when your heart isn't wrapped up in a specific tiny human who is living in your home. Please pray for our hearts that if/when the time comes to give babies who we have cared for back to their families or forward to their new forever families we are able to love all involved and not be heartbroken. I know to a certain level we will ache for the kids who get placed elsewhere, and that is a good thing, I just pray that it isn't a devastating heartache--lord knows we've had enough of that lately.

Two years ago when we first began the foster process to get that sweet baby from the hospital I never would have know that this would be where we would end up these 24+ months later. It has been a rough road full of questions and doubt, for sure, but as I continue to grow towards Jesus I am reminded daily that I am loved eternally and I am given grace to figure out what it looks like for me to love others.





Comments

  1. JuliaOctober 11, 2015 at 10:55 PM

    I'm praying for you in this process as well. I hope the waiting ends and the rocking begins soon. You two will be such good foster parents!

    ReplyDelete
  2. UnknownNovember 13, 2015 at 1:11 PM

    You are wonderful for sticking with it and persevering.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Open, Ready, and Waiting

We are once again an open foster home! We were officially approved last Friday and opened for kids a couple of days ago. We are incredibly excited and so ready for that call that there is a baby who needs us. As excited and ready to help as we are we also know that for us to get a baby like this it means that a family is being taken apart, and that is heart wrenching. The jobs that I have had over the years have placed struggling families in my life in a variety of ways. Through working at daycares I was able to see so many working moms and dads striving to make the lives of their children good and fun. At Early Head Start I worked with some incredibly vulnerable families and children; the struggle these parents went through to make a good life for their children was evident. Some did a better job than others, some struggled constantly. These children lacked rules and boundaries and didn't know how to get love and attention without behaving badly. My work at the variou...
Post a Comment
Read more

Coming Out of the Infertility Closet

As long as I can remember I've wanted to be a mother. I've always loved babies, just ask my mom. She will tell you how at age 12 I told her I wanted to be a mom. How I loved playing with baby dolls when I was young and as I got older I gravitated towards babies and kids. She will tell you how I always asked to hold babies at church. I've loved babies as long as I can remember. My love of babies and children eventually led me to get my bachelors degree from Baylor in Child and Family studies. Which led to a career in Child Life. Then eventually to my current position as a developmental therapist. This love is what has made the last almost 18 months so incredibly painful. As I sit here on cycle day 5 after our second failed IUI attempt--one that carried a 25% chance at success, one with medications both pills and injectables, one that I was able to feel so hopeful about--I wanted to share with you all the pieces of my heart that have been breaking all these months. ...
1 comment
Read more

The Next Step: IUI

We've reached the point of taking yet another "next step" in our infertility journey. Today is day 3 of cycle 14 in month 16. Sixteen. Sixteen months. We have been trying, clearly unsuccessfully, for almost a year and a half. It has been an incredibly emotional 16 months. So many things have happened in the time that this one thing is not. My grandmother died almost 10 months ago. My mother shattered her shoulder and had surgery for replacement. My husband had an emergency appendectomy. Work reduced my hours and pushed me to part time. We got the most adorable puppy in November. We celebrated our 2nd and 3rd wedding anniversaries. We've celebrated with many friends as they got engaged and married. We have countless friends who have gotten pregnant and had their babies. Most importantly we've grown closer to each other as husband and wife & have learned better ways to communicate. We've also learned many things that are not effective when it comes t...
Post a Comment
Read more