The Beginning

The adventure of foster care really started a year before I even knew I would become a foster parent. I honestly had no idea I even ever wanted to be one.

That all changed in 2008 when I met 2 darling little humans who were in foster care. My cousin had been a foster parent for some time and had adopted a son through foster care, and was in the process of adopting this darling sibling set. The little girl had been with her since 10 months old and her brother came to her after birth. I did not meet them until they we’re 2 and 3. I started babysitting for my cousin and helping out when I could, and it didn’t take long to fall in love with G and A, thats what we will call them to respect their privacy.

G and A stayed with me for 10 days while my cousin had to go out of town. It didn’t take much for me to instantly fall in love with them. They were the sweetest.

Things happened in the home with my cousins (adopted) son and because of those things she was unable to adopt G and A. This issue in the home is not my story to tell but it is one of the many reason why I strongly believe the system is broken. All children in the home were safe and very loved. I’ll talk more about the issue in a later blog.

Because of G and A would no longer be adopted by my cousin I decided to put in an Intent to Adopt. I can tell you know from experience that the process was not handled properly and I was not chosen. This is another reason I strongly believe our system is broken. G and A were our family, they knew no other family, and that did not keep them with us. My heart was broken, along side my cousin who had loved and nurtured and protected these children their whole lives. This is when I decided to continue the process to licence my home as a foster home.

G and A, although never legally, will always be considered my first children from foster care. Being blessed to be able to love on them for the short time that I did opened my eyes to my calling of being a foster parent. I haven’t regretted it for a minute since we welcomed our first little human into our home. That’s a story for another day.