Foster Care and other adventures in family growth.

Alright. When we were doing, but not doing, but still unknowingly doing this Ethiopian adoption - we started foster care training. So after rejoining the Ethiopia program we thought and prayed about what to do about this process that'd we'd begun for foster care. Well, we decided to continue and get our foster care license and we restarted our training yesterday.

It looks like we'll be licensed somewhere around the end of February if all goes as planned. Our last training class will be February 12th and then the home study worker will come out and do our home study which should not (fingers crossed) take more than a few weeks. So, after our license comes in there is potential for us to get a placement right away! Or, of course, as all things orphan care can always go - we could wait.


All in God's time, and hopefully people won't stand in the way of His will.

But, I have to say, after feeling discouraged about adoption and feeling like maybe I've been reading Him all wrong - I really feel like he's working things out. Every time there is a weird road block, he takes care of it.

For example, we needed a new fire inspection for the foster care home study. So a guy comes out and freaks out about the smallest problems with our house. Our outlet covers are off because we started painting the kitchen a year ago and haven't finished we're painting. Our fire extinguisher sits on the counter instead of being mounted on the wall. Our basement is a mess of VW parts that a "child could get hurt on" (why would an infant be in the basement unsupervised??). So, then, after all that he never called back and would not return our calls. So I called a different inspector, she came out that same day and approved us!

Well, show up to training yesterday and look through our forms again to realize she didn't sign the back of the form! So I called her today and she came back out and signed the form. She told me that it was weird I called her today cause the other guy was talking to her about us and saying we were going to "have to call him back" to deal with our issues (specifically he was not happy with the disarray of a green house Abe is building in the yard). She just told him, "I went out and approved them. They do not have to call you back!" She told me, "I'm not concerned with your yard, I'm trying to make sure you are safe in a fire in your house not in your yard!"


So, that's worked out. She even approved sleeping arrangements on the third floor, which means this weekend I get to start setting up a bedroom for what will hopefully be new additions soon!