Super frustrating but I am not letting myself get discouraged. This summers plans have completely gotten in the way of me being able to take the classes to start the ball rolling on this foster stuff. They will not email me back when I asked if I could take the classes now and then make up the ones I missed before I got the stuff in the mail. So I guess that means I have to wait until the next introduction class.

In the meantime I am researching and preparing my house so when the time comes it will be a smoother process.

Matthew 25:23 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’

Its All A Part Of the Process :(

Weird that I can be so sad about a turtle but I am typing through tears. I realized today that since it is not legal for me to have him in TN I won't be able to have him. If I knew I would pass my home visits with dcs I would keep him, but I know the likelihood of that is slim. 

Tomorrow I am saying "see you soon" to this big guy! I got him before I even got Maggie! Hard to believe he has been with me for 12 years through so much!!! So thankful and what a relief he is moving to a new home that I can keep in contact with and watch him continued to grow! Big thank you to Viktoreya Edwards and her sister for welcoming him into their home faster than I expected! 

Mark Richard say goodbye to our boy Duke! He is A grown boy and is moving out!

ITS HERE!!!!

I am so excited!!! My welcome packet is here! I hopefully will be able to start the classes in two weeks. 

According to the schedule I missed the first two classes but my hopes are that I can just joining the schedule and take the first two classes at the end when they have them again!!!

Say a prayer for me please! I am beyond excited about this journey! 

It's official

I made the announcement. Well, I told my mom ha ha! So now I can make it official.

I'm making it happen! I called dcs, was transferred to a dozen people and am not being sent a welcome packet and the schedule to take my classes to become a foster parent. 😊 I am so excited! I can not contain my excitement. I will update more when I get the packet and find out what the process entails! Say some prayers!!!

Blogs for the future

I created this new blog to share my thoughts, hopes and dreams for a new season of my life. I will be documenting my journey so that I can learn, share and help others who are interested in the same path as I am. Stay tuned for more news :) I can not wait! 

Psalm 37:4 
Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Blogs From The Past....

The following is a post from my normal blog. A glimpse in a dream in the making.

FOSTER

11:53 PM

When you get to my point in life you get so used to the everyday routine, all you have to do is focus on what is going wrong, or what you are missing, who you are missing. This is something I plan to change. I need to refocus. 

My heart has always been driven to foster. I have always told myself I would adopt and or foster children in need. With my job, and life style I have always had this feeling I will not get to have kids of my own. No idea why, just always a feeling I have had. Part of me believes that is why God places me with jobs where I am able to help raise the kids as my own. Either way, I feel like there is so much love in my heart that needs to be shared and so many kids with childhoods so much worse than my own that need to be loved so that they can see the potential they deserve. 

Given my lifestyle right now I have not been able to do so. I made myself a few promises when it came to finally fostering, the biggest was that I would be able to dedicate to the child. I would be able to provide for the child/children. I do not want to take on a child if I can not afford it. I know that when you foster you are given an allowance but I do not want to depend on that allowance. I want to put that money into a savings bond for the child when they are older. 

Lately I have channeled that energy into helping animals when I can because I can not help children. It has been very rewarding because the animals have come from very bad situations but it just breaks my heart and makes me wish I could do more. 

After talking to a friend that was staying with me we discussed my desire and my dream and since then I have been researching short term, emergency, and pre-adoption foster care. With that I will be able to full fill my desire but not the commitment of the full term foster that I really want to do. Any body ever watch one tree hill where Brooke fostered the baby that came to American for a heart surgery and then went back home. I want to do something like that. With something like that I can still fit it into my work schedule hopefully and still in between have my daily life and school routine. 

Tomorrow I will spend my day writing a horrible paper and after that is finished I will allow myself to dream and plan this new journey. I am beyond excited!