As I was telling you yesterday, we began
talking about foster care towards the end of our journey through infertility.
You can read more about that HERE. But this isn’t where our journey began. God
knit this into our beings. We may not have always known this would be our
journey but He knew and He makes beauty from brokenness.
We began the licensing process quickly
after our first phone call to our Foster Family Agency. Anyone that knows me
knows patience is not my virtue. Our FFA
was about to discover just what I meant by this statement.
We had our licensing packet complete
within 2 weeks, had all our classes scheduled and completed in a month and were
licensed within a week of our last class. Partially because I “checked up”
quite a bit on our licensing worker and partially because we made our schedules
work with theirs rather than visa versa. We were just SO ready!
During our licensing we got a call for a
sibling set of four. We weren’t able to take them because we had too much to
still complete. The day before our license was complete we got a call for a
baby girl born the day before. We said YES! Timing was perfect… our license
came on Friday at 5pm and Baby A was at our door 4 hours later.
What happened to those 4 kiddos you ask?
Exactly a month after Baby A came home we said yes to a sibling set of 2 – a 1 ½
yr old boy and a 2 ½ yr old girl. They had actually called us 6 times for this
sib set. We had said no because of location of the visits, etc. Finally we
decided this call must be for us and said yes. The little girl was only with us
for a very short time but Baby J was here for quite a while (and will be in our
lives for a lifetime but that’s a story for another time). A few months later
we found out these two babies were the two youngest of that sibling set! Crazy
how the timing works out sometimes! Why we had to go through what we did with J
is a mystery to me but what I do know is he made a permanent mark on all our
hearts and his smile will be in the sweetest of my dreams forever.
If you know our story, you know that we
now have 2 beautiful baby girls. We don’t know what God has planned for their
precious lives but I’m honored and humbled He has entrusted us with their lives
even if for only a short time. I guess you’ll have to stick around to find out
how their story unfolds.
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