Welcome! My vision for this blog is to give people who are interested in foster care and or adoption a glimpse of what it is really like to go through the entire process- from the info session to getting your first placement and everything in between.
To start I'd like to introduce myself. I am a twenty-something Christ following wife, mother of four furry kids, veterinary technician, cross fitter, hiker, baker, bike rider, snowboarder, and soon to be foster parent whose heart is overflowing with love for kids. My husband and I have always wanted to adopt but weren't sure what that would look like for our family. We have been told that having biological children will be nearly impossible without any medical intervention so adoption was honestly a no brainer. I am not going to sugar coat things and say that finding out about my infertility wasn't hard, because it was very hard and heart breaking. But after the shock subsided we realized that God has a plan for our family and adoption really is going to be apart of it.
Over a few months we read a lot about private adoption and even went to two different adoption agencies informational meetings. But then one night at a church conference we met some friends of my brother and sister-in-law who were foster parents. They went on and on about how it was the best thing they had ever done while also being the hardest. When we got home I googled Hope and Home, the agency they fostered through, and went through every inch of their website. They had some testimonial videos that were tear jerking and just wow. I immediately thought that this was what we were meant to do. Well my husband Drew still needed to be convinced. He was apprehensive at first but once he watched the videos he agreed to go to a meeting. So here we are waiting for our background checks to come back, the last step before becoming licensed...
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