Something I came across & wanted to share

"Wherever You Are"

Little child, wherever you are,

there's something you should know.

Someone out there loves you and wants to watch you grow.

For though we haven't met and I have never seen your face,

I long for the day I see you smile and feel your warm embrace.

You may be kneeling down to pray for a place you can call home,

or maybe somewhere crying feeling sad and all alone.

No matter where you are right now, just try hard to be strong.

For someday soon you'll be with me, in my arms where you belong.

I may never carry you in my womb, but I carry you in my heart.

And when we finally find each other, we'll never be apart.

Until the day has come when all these things shall come to be,

I'll be dreaming of you every day, and I hope you dream of me.

Progress on the room

We are getting so excited. I especially can't wait to find out if we are getting boy(s) girl(s) or one of each so I can decorate the room accordingly.



Currently, we are just waiting for our referral from the Social Worker to Licensing so we can begine the home inspection. I'll update, of course, as soon as we hear something.

Comments

First off, I would like to say thank you so much to all of you who read our blog and follow our journey through Foster Care and adoption. As you all know, we have had a long road of decision making and soul searching to get to where we are today in the process. We have done a LOT of research, Networking, Studying and Educating ourselves with all the different avenues of adoption.

The purpose of our blog, ONCE AGAIN, is for friends and family to follow our journey. Simply put, it is hard to call everyone and update everyone with every single change that happens. This blog is to give everyone access into our lives, into our journey, our path to becoming a family. We most certainly could put this blog on private so that only admitted people can read it and comment. We chose not to do that. We choose to open our story to any one and everyone who is interested in following it. Everyone, of course, has their own story, their own experiences, good and bad. But please understand one thing. This is OUR story. This is OUR Journey. We would love to hear your stories, comments, and opinions as long as they are proactive and positive. If you have a negative story that you, in some way think can help us get through our journey a little easier, or some advice that you can give us to help with the transition for the children we are open to it.. as long as there is nothing hateful.

Therefore, we have decided to moderate the comments. you can say whatever you choose. But please understand that I will not post anything that is so negative and hateful that it will cause and e-mail/blog war on what is supposed to be a happy and exciting time for us.

Not Much Yet...

Not much has happened since the last post.. but I gave a little update and explanation of where were are at right now to my cousin, and thought maybe I should share the same info with you...

When we finish the last stage (the licensing part) which will be about 6-7 weeks from now, hopefully... we will officially go on the waiting list. When our social workers has a child(ren) that she thinks would be a good match for our family she will call us and tell us minor details about the child(ren) if we are interested we go in for a match meeting. That is where they give us all the details about the child(ren). If we agree, then our file is presented to the child(rens) social worker and she will choose between us and whoever else was presented. If we are chosen, we get them placed with us. At that point they will be our foster children (with intentions of adoption) until the birth parents rights have been officially terminated. (The social worker believes that the parents will not get them back which is why they are looking for an adoptive placement, but there is the chance that they will). Once the rights have been terminated, we will begin the adoption process.

We hope you all had a fantastic holiday weekend!

These are the adorable little ones that enjoyed our backyard

for the fourth this year...

Hopefully next year we will be able to

add our child(ren) to the group.