Coming Together

It's all coming together, maybe sooner than later. We should have the all clear with our home study by Nov. 14th. The fire inspection is Nov 18th. After that, we tie up any loose ends. Thanksgiving baby?? Don't know. What I do know is that my timing is not what is important. We decided on foster parenting with hopes of adoption because we became aware of a need. A need for safe homes for abused and neglected children. For the last year I have researched adoption from domestic to international. I always came back to America's hurt children. The foster children. We were looking closely at Ethiopia, and had the timing been right I would have signed us up in a heartbeat. Now Ethiopia is increasing on wait times and fees. I knew in my heart that if we were going to add to our family, then foster care was it. The signs were all around us (literally); they are on bulletin boards, tv, church signs, radio, and even t-shirts of other foster parents. It was calling out to us, and as we have listened in faith our family is about to change. I do want the process to hurry up, but that is foolish. This process is preparing us, and we need to learn as much as possible while we can. We leave for vacation tomorrow and I am so happy. I really did want to take another child with us, but I see that this vacation may be our last as a family of 5. What we need to focus on is each other, our family now-not our family to be. Our boys bring us joy, I don't want to miss that because I'm looking too far out the window. I am now embracing these hoops we are jumping through, and not rushing the process. God's plan is perfect, and his timing is right. It feels good to let go and live free.