The Ap Is In!

I just dropped of my application for fostering today! I'm really excited and hopeful about this. Right now I am searching the internet for whatever I can find on the topic while I wait to hear from a caseworker!

First Step

I've decided I'm going to pick up an application for foster care today. We've been talking about it for a few months now and I feel that we are both ready and committed enough to start the process. It doesn't feel scarey or forced. Instead it feels exciting and "right". For awhile there we were talking about selling EVERYTHING and trying to make a go of it in "travel mode", starting with Costa Rica. But the economy keeps us from selling our business and likely our house, for what they are really worth to us. So, we've come to terms with the fact that we may be grounded here in the mountains for a couple years at least. Fostering will give me the challenge I feel that I need at this point in my life. I'm also feeling a little bit like I'd like to have a child in my home. I wrestle with what that feeling is. I am not sure if I want to have kids of my own. I'm not sure if I want a baby. I don't think I crave that. So, I belive fostering will be good for me.

I Think We'd Make Good Foster Parents

Recently I saw a notice in the paper announcing a potluck dinner at Health and Human Services about learning about becoming a foster parent. I've always thought I would adopt and so I thought I would go out of curiousity. I just went and now I'm really excited. I think we will do it. We haven't decided for sure, our life is a little crazy right now but I think we'll start the training process and see what kind of feeling we get. Anyways, I just wanted to share this adventure on the web since I couldn't find much out there. I would love help someone else out by posting my experience.