Also the day after we officially took the placement of the boys in our home, we received a call for a newborn baby girl at the hospital. Oddly enough I had ZERO desire to take her. After discussing it with Chad we decided not to take her. I felt really bad, but with the likelihood of the boys being adopted I really thought they deserve to have time to settle in before even considering adding to us. A good friend from class ended up taking the baby and she was so happy she cried. I knew that God had made no mistake of what phone call I received first. Life Lesson #2: Stop telling God how I want my blessings packaged. He just laughs at me anyways then says "you will love what I have for you so much, you won't believe you asked for something different"
Friday, August 8, 2014
Irony
I forgot to mention a few things. The first is about Melissa, the foster mom who we did respite for that recommended us to the boys caseworker. I honestly had written off what she said. I mean I didn't even know for sure it was her they were talking about until I looked through my text and saw that was her name. Life lesson: it's easy to disregard what people say until it changes your life.
The Boys
Time has flown by since our girls left. Oddly enough we have still not been paid yet, but it's only been 7 weeks. (Eye roll) We found out that the siblings we were interested in would not be separated from their sister they haven't been living with and her special needs are more than we are capable of taking care of at this time. We decided to go ahead and open back up and be very strict on what kind of placement we would accept.
In the interim, we watch two kiddos that were amazing, a happy go lucky 9 month old baby and a 4 year old little boy. They were from another county and it looked like we might get to take them as a placement. They decided to keep them in their county due to degree of abuse and wanting to utilize local resources they were familiar with. We were pretty heartbroken, but it did show us that we could love again after being let down with the siblings not working out. The seasoned foster mom we did respite for asked what we were looking for and told us that she would keep an ear out. I figured that was her way of being nice since she knew we we're let down. I told her we wanted a baby and a 4-6 year old sibling set and didn't think much more of it.
Two weeks went by back on the active list and all the calls we received were not even in our age we are licensed for. (Pretty typical when the caseworker gets desperate to find a placement) Then out of the blue I get a call...the caseworker said that she had heard from Melissa and she knew we wanted a baby but gave us the scoop on two boys. She said, "Due to the amount of time they have been in the system and lack of progress adoption will be very likely. Would we like to take them for the weekend to see if it would be a good fit for our family?" How could I say no? I called my hubby who agreed and we meet the boys that night. They were so cute and quite honestly could pass for bio kids. The weekend went great and we accepted the placement. That was 3 weeks ago and these boys have stolen our hearts. Now for the roller coaster of how this thing will end. We greatly appreciate your prayers!
In the interim, we watch two kiddos that were amazing, a happy go lucky 9 month old baby and a 4 year old little boy. They were from another county and it looked like we might get to take them as a placement. They decided to keep them in their county due to degree of abuse and wanting to utilize local resources they were familiar with. We were pretty heartbroken, but it did show us that we could love again after being let down with the siblings not working out. The seasoned foster mom we did respite for asked what we were looking for and told us that she would keep an ear out. I figured that was her way of being nice since she knew we we're let down. I told her we wanted a baby and a 4-6 year old sibling set and didn't think much more of it.
Two weeks went by back on the active list and all the calls we received were not even in our age we are licensed for. (Pretty typical when the caseworker gets desperate to find a placement) Then out of the blue I get a call...the caseworker said that she had heard from Melissa and she knew we wanted a baby but gave us the scoop on two boys. She said, "Due to the amount of time they have been in the system and lack of progress adoption will be very likely. Would we like to take them for the weekend to see if it would be a good fit for our family?" How could I say no? I called my hubby who agreed and we meet the boys that night. They were so cute and quite honestly could pass for bio kids. The weekend went great and we accepted the placement. That was 3 weeks ago and these boys have stolen our hearts. Now for the roller coaster of how this thing will end. We greatly appreciate your prayers!
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