Did you know May is Foster Care Awareness
Month? I’m joining in with #knittogetherbyadoption to help raise awareness for
kids in foster care. Obviously foster care is very near and dear to our hearts.
Aside from being actual foster parents there are SO many avenues to help kids
in foster care. If ever you’d like to get involved but don’t know where to
start please reach out… I’d be happy to help you along the way!
I’m mixing 2 days in on since I wasn’t
able to get on yesterday. However, I am on track on Instagram so feel free to
follow me along there @peachesandpaisleys.
Day 1: An Introduction
I’m Kate, married to my handsome hubs
Ryan. We are foster and hopeful adoptive parents. At the moment we have 2
beautiful baby girls who are 10 months apart under the age of 14 months. Yes!
Our hands and hearts are very full and we LOVE it!
Both girls were placed with us in February
of this year, a week apart from each other. They are our 4th and 5th
babies. We didn’t think we would be an emergency placement home but God has
uniquely opened the door for each of these sweet babies to join our family
although our hearts still pray for a baby to stay.
Day 2: How did you first learn of foster
care?
We always knew we wanted to adopt but we
wanted to get pregnant before we talked about that adoption. We had been
walking the road of infertility for quite some time. We briefly talked about
private adoption during our time in fertility. One morning I had a heart to
heart with Jesus. I knew I couldn’t keep doing fertility treatments but
desperately wanted a family. Some sweet friends of ours had recently been
licensed to foster babies. I felt God opening this door but NEVER thought Ryan
would go for it.
Over the next few days I couldn’t stop
thinking this is where we were meant to be. I told God if He wanted this for us
He needed to open Ryan’s heart. I wasn’t going to try to convince him. Sure
enough we sat down to talk about it and I didn’t even finish the first sentence
of what I though would be a long conversation and Ryan said he felt this was
our next move as well (WHAT?!?!). Our very close family friends founded our
Foster Family Agency so I called and we were licensed shortly after.
Side story: my impatience came to full
show as we were getting licensed. Apparently we are the fastest family to have
ever been licensed through our agency and we were formally placed with our
first baby 20 minutes after our licensed was signed.
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