A little history and where we are headed...

My husband and I have been married since 2003.  We knew before we got married that we would grow our family through adoption.  What we did not know is that adoption would be the only way (at least it has been to this point).  After several years of infertility we absolutely knew that assisted reproduction of any sort was not God's plan for our family. After lots and lots of research about adoption and all the different ways it can be done, in October of 2008, we partnered with a local agency to adopt through Foster Care.  We fostered two boys, ages 3 & 4 for two months in 2009.  In July of 2009 we went inactive so that my husband could knock out some more college courses.  We reactivated our profile with our agency again in April of 2010.  We were matched with our son Jamie in June and he came home in July.  We finalized our adoption of him in January, 2011.  We are current foster parents to the sweetest little 10 month girl, baby J.  Her plan is reunification and she will likely be going home at the end of Sept.  So that is the short and quick of where we have been.  I plan to elaborate much more on the adoption of our son over time here.

So where are we headed?  I have been working outside the home during all of this.  As of October, 2011 I will be starting my new full time, 24 hour a day, 168 hour a week job as wife, mother, foster mom, teacher, chef, maid, etc.  My family is so looking forward to this, and so am I.  We will continue to foster after baby J leaves.  We are considering fostering a newborn next.  We are licensed for 3 children so it could be a sibling group as well.  We are committed to serving and loving these children well and seeing them reunited with their family.  However, if/when the plan changes from reunification to adoption then our home is open to them staying forever.  We look forward to seeing what God has planned for all of us!

Our family loves Jesus and we acknowledge that our role as foster parents is a ministry.  It is through God's grace and strength that we are able to persevere in this calling.

"Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world." James 1:27