My last blog I talked about support and how important it is to make sure that you have a good support system around you when you decide to become a foster parent.
This brings me to the introduction of my beautiful wife, Nikki Tanguay, my rock, my supporter, my shelter, my best friend, my soul mate, my hero, my hat trying on friend, the person I can cry with and laugh with and the most wonderful mother I could ever ask for for our children.
We met when she was 8 and I was 9. I moved on to the street that she lived on and we became best friends. I spent every weekend at her house and when I moved away that didn’t stop. I also spent most of my summers there too. Her mother was a kinda unofficial foster mother to me. To most the kids in the neighborhood, and some outside of it too actually. We’re a big group, that are still connected to each other.
When we got older we became roommates and lived in several homes together, and when we didn’t live in the same home we still were at each others houses hanging out all the time.
We officially started dating on April 2011. But according to friends and family that knew us, they thought it should have happened sooner. When we finally started dating a lot of them said, ‘It’s about time”
We were engaged on November 23, 2012 and got married on September 28, 2013. We couldn’t legally get married but that didn’t matter to us. We just knew we needed to spend the rest of our lives together.
Then June 26, 2015 happen, LOVE WINS, same sex marriage in now legal and we didn’t miss a beat. As soon as I heard I called my wife on the phone and asked her to marry me again, she proposed the first time. We planned the wedding for July 25, 2015, we didn’t want to take a chance that it would get overturned. We have now been married legally for 7 years, and they have been the best years of my life.
My wife has supported me in all the things I have ever dreamed of doing. Encouraging and supporting me every step of the way. When the dream of adopting and soon after fostering became a reality for me, she was there cheering me on. Even before marriage. As a best friend and roommate she took the Pride classes (now called GROW Classes) with me. When I wanted to continue licensing our house as foster home, she jumped right in. I couldn’t ask for a better person to be by my side through this crazy adventure of a life we have.
Fostering.... The Life 