Our Foster Adventure

Yesterday marks three weeks since Baby M came to live with us. We are Baby M's foster family. He is a beautiful little tow-headed boy of 18 months with the biggest and brightest blue eyes you ever did see. He is darling. When he is happy, all is right in the world.

We were not truly seeking to foster, but we were open to the possibility. We heard about Baby M from some friends at church who ended up fostering him for a year. Then they had to move out of state, so that is when we stepped in. We have always loved Baby M and felt that God was telling us that we would play a part in his life. It was our joy to take him in.  So we got everything ready. We pulled the crib and changing table down from the attic and bought a new mattress and new crib linens. We got a new to us glider rocker. We moved Esther down to her new room and set the nursery back up. It was surreal looking at it once again.... We took our classes, our awesome agency requires 30 hours, and tackled the mountain of paperwork. Then on March 8th he was placed with us.

Baby M's situation is unique. The most common question that we get is if we are going to adopt him. Sadly, no. Baby M has an adoptive family that is waiting for him with open arms. The only thing is that they live in another country. So we wait until that mountain of paperwork his satisfied for them to come and take him to his forever home. We are thrilled for Baby M and his new family.

Toddler adoption is a unique adventure. Besides loving and caring for this sweet boy, our job is to prepare him for his new family. We have done this before, but were on the waiting side.  I will write more next time about how we are preparing him to meet his forever family.