Wednesday, December 16, 2015

It's been quite a while since I posted

I think my last post sufficiently explains my feelings after our FD left our home. It's been two years, and I still miss her. But I've healed, and she has moved on and done very well. She still has a long way to go, but she's thriving, and back living with her twin. I am very excited for both of them.

In February of this year, we decided to close our foster license. Our Jack was adopted in April of last year, and we didn't feel that foster care was something we could continue. The hurt was too much. We had SO much loss, in such a short amount of time. We had 3 deaths in the same week that R moved out. It was too much for us to process.

So we thought we closed our license for good. But we knew that opening it back up would be easy. And it was a possibility in our minds- only for our niece. She came into care while we had the twins, and my FIL ended up taking custody. He became a licensed foster parent and has had her for the last two years. Her mother lost her parental rights in September, and then tragically died less than a week later. We had already considered adoption for this sweet girl, because we are in state, and we have a relationship with her. And we opened our hearts to fostering again, because of her.

In a bittersweet turn, she will not be coming to our home, but instead will be adopted by my dear SIL who lives out of state. And suddenly we realized that we still wanted more. And we decided that God had used this situation to open our hearts to foster care once again. Slowly, over time, we have decided to go on this journey again.

So as of the new year, we will be accepting new placements! We have enough room in our home for several more- but have decided that we don't have room for more than 2 more in my car (Although a full size van IS on the table sometime next year lol)

I am so excited, and nervous about starting another chapter. But I know that God has lead us here- and that we have learned SO much from our experiences before. We are just following God's plan, which always leads us to the very best place.