SO many changes!

Life has been SO hectic these days!

Watching what I eat and getting moving is a daily activity. The more I do it, the less of a chore it becomes. #Brightside

School started this week for the twins and they LOVE their teachers! #AnsweredPrayers We were given the option to make a request for a teacher for this year and I did not exercise that option. My reasoning behind that was that by putting my children with the people that best suit their personalities, they are not learning how to deal with people that do not fit into their personalities. One daughter got a teacher that does fit into her personality and the other did not. I foresee some challenges, but nothing that can't be over come. You know what they say:
 "What doesn't challenge you ... doesn't change you!"

Which brings me to the NEXT big change, well the beginning of this process anyway. Next week my husband and I will start attending the 10 week mandatory training classes to begin the process of becoming foster parents. I made the announcement to a few friends last night at church. As the day gets closer, I am more excited about the prospect of becoming a foster parent. Right now, I honestly don't think my husband is excited, he struggles with parenting our 3 daughters. My prayer is that these classes will help teach him the tools he will need, not only to be an excellent dad to foster children, but enjoy the process of parenthood, even in the challenging times. A Deacon mentioned that his wife and daughters either had been or had considered being a foster parent. His daughter adopted a child through foster care and he & his wife decided that they couldn't do it because they couldn't see them selves being able to give the children back. 

My Deacon said something to me that really spoke to my heart when I told him about starting this process. Deacon told me that it is a calling and the ability to foster is a gift from God. I feel like I have been training to be a foster parent every summer since we moved to Alabama. My twin sister is kind enough to let me have her children for the summer, at least 4 weeks for the past 4 years. I fold them into our lives, love them, teach them, and send them home with positive memories and looking forward to the next time. Are there challenges? YES! Is it always easy? Nope! Would I do it again? Every summer she will send them! (Not that she wants to be rid of them! They are awesome children and I love them and my sister with all my heart.)

This has been on my heart for easily the past 10 years, almost 11... ever since my Father passed away, from a conversation I had with one of my cousins about the time he spent with my parents when he was a child. He told me that the time he spent with my parents (this was LONG before I was born) was life changing! What a powerful statement! Children are our future, I don't want to give birth to any more, that doesn't mean I don't want to have any more! Here's to this next chapter!

'Til next time!

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