My husband and I have been married for 3 years and have always wanted to have a family. However, we haven’t been able to have any children of our own. So, we started praying about fostering or adoption and found ourselves signed up for classes that started the beginning of 2019.

For those interested in fostering/ adoption… the state we live in requires 30 hours of training. We took a 10-week class that met once a week for 3 hours. Also, I hope you like writing and telling your life story a million times over on paper! For more information and requirements check your state’s DHR website.

We officially became licensed Summer of 2019. I felt like we waited forever for a placement call between the time our classes were over and our actual first initial placement. I still can remember our first “almost” placement call. We were the backup plan to a little boy under the age of one. As I listened to the caseworker telling me what little she knew about him, I became attached. It’s amazing how I could yearn for someone I had not even met and how quickly it was taken away when we received a call hours later informing us that a relative placement had been found. It felt like months before we received another placement call, but it was merely weeks later. Due to the placement still being current this is where our story will end about our journey; because, our journey has just begun. ♥