We are so excited to start this journey!
George and I have always said that we wanted a big family, and now that we’ve moved into a bigger home, we have the space to open our home up to children who need to be loved. Throughout this process we’ve talked a lot about what we could handle and we’ve decided that at this stage we are willing to accept children ages 0-10, as well as small sibling groups. In the future, we may open up our home to teenagers as well, but at this time we feel that we cannot handle that, and that is isn’t a very natural progression of age if/when we do end up having biological children.
There are a lot of steps that go into the process (background checks, home safety checks, physicals, fingerprinting, shots for our dog, baby proofing our house, etc). At this point in the process we have submitted an application, and had a home visit with the foster care recruiters. We have also made our appointment to do our fingerprinting, and background check, as well as received all the paperwork we need to fill out, and are working on getting all that information. The next steps involve us getting our bedrooms and home safety ready, and starting our training done.
While this could be a very long journey to even get children in our home, we also could have a full house of children in 2-3 months. There are many things that we will have to do and get to get both things ready in preparation for our home to be made available. If you would like to help us get any of the things to help us make our home more welcoming and safe for these children we have created a registry at Target. https://www.target.com/gift-registry/giftgiver?registryId=c4b08c056ed641cb8d6fb8f790a78c7d&type=GENERIC&occasionType=OTHER&fbclid=IwAR0M0byhSKqASKWrlZBRudl9EF4gxRf1ceQGSMeViat1UW0AwxW44q9g5nk
We also appreciate that you pray with us while we are preparing ourselves and our home.
Perez Family Foster Journey 