SLOWLY BUT SURELY…

If the questions we get everyday are any indication, I’m sure you all are looking for an update on our foster care journey, and honestly so are we!

This summer has been a little crazy as we settle into our lives after moving to Kentucky, and have finally started to feel like out house is coming together (Pictures to follow soon!). When we were looking at houses in the area, we specifically picked one of bigger houses with lots of space for our family to grow, knowing that we wanted start our foster care journey as soon as we moved. So now our foster rooms (one upstairs and one downstairs) have been set up with bunk beds, cribs, sheets, blankets and dressers in preparation for our placements. We will continue to add to the rooms as we are able to get items that will make the rooms feel more homey.

We turned in all of our foster care paperwork (after many writing cramps, and papercuts), we finished all of our training at the end of May, and our house had passed it’s home study. The only thing we are still waiting on is my last background check from Pennsylvania (we had to get one from each state that we’ve each lived in the last 5 years) which has taken much longer to get back than we or our foster care company expected. This may be due to background checks being backed up in the state, or other factors.

Once the final background check is in, we will finally be approved and then have foster placements soon after. It has been a hurry up and wait process, which has been a little bit frustrating, but we are confident that it is all in God’s timing. While we are in this waiting time of the process we are taking time to pray that God will prepare us for the kids that will be placed in our home, and for the lives of the kids and their parents, which is one of the most important ways you can support us- if you’re looking for more ways look forward to our next blog post!