Oops.
Been a little busy here as of late and I'll tell you why. Jack and I are on the path of becoming parents!
We are in the process of getting dual licensing for a 14-month-old bi-racial girl from Milwaukee. Dual licensed in the fact that she is a foster child, so we need a license to be foster parents, and then if the plan changes over the course of this next year and she becomes available for adoption, we would like to adopt her. However, she would need to be in our home for 6 months straight and her parents' rights would have been terminated for that to happen. I will not go into the details of her life, that is her story to tell. I will tell you that we were made aware of this situation as her current foster family attends Oakwood Church and thought of us for her long-term placement! This is a legal-risk placement in the fact that she could be reunited with her family. We just trust in God the Father about this child and the details, and we show her love and provide a stable home for her when she comes here. So please pray for the licensing process and that nothing hinders us from getting this little girl that God put indirectly in to our path.
If you want to know more about foster care and adopting from foster care, contact me! :)
I do hope we get a call from Lifetime in California this year about a child through them as we cannot have a license issued by one agency for one adoption and another license by another agency for the other. Complicated, I know. We got the book from DCFHS last week and can read every code made for foster care...boring. We have been told that our contract has been extended another 6 months at Lifetime because after 2 years of waiting with them, they review your file and hope to make a match in that time frame, but know that it's not a guarantee.
SO! We are learning so much about different types of adoption just this year alone. Crazy.
Personally, I just got hired for another part-time job, one mile from my house. So I would be working roughly 15 hours a week between the two over the summer.
Anyways...I'd like to hear from y'all. What have you done this year that you haven't done ever?
