Still Alive!!

(if you have watched The Croods the title will make sense to you hehe!)
I realize it has been a few weeks since my last post. I can't make any promises that it want happen again either. There is really nothing to post about but I think that was my way of keeping my mind off of it to keep from getting a little discouraged. Let me explain... Getting your license to parent a kid is not a quick process. Makes sense I guess because even with our biological children we had to wait 9 months to meet them. Its not that I wish they would fast process everything and get this ball moving umm wait yes I kinda guess I do. Well at least I do see the importance of the whole process. Just parts of it I wish I could change. I am right now just trying to focus on this as a time of preparation for me and our family. We have another class this Saturday and then we go another month before the next and last class. Partly because when we started the process in December we were in the middle of a rotation and have already taken some of the classes that are happening now. We still have a few things on our checklist to complete that is part of the whole application process. Our deadline for those are just to have them completed once our home studies start. Which want be until after our last class. After hearing back from our social worker we are looking at like 4-5 months after we start our home studies to find out if we are approved or denied a license. Whoa... shut the front door.... approved or denied I must have blocked that part out in our initial gathering of information. Oh well it is in God's hands and he has placed us here and I know that won't be an issue. (I sound so sure of myself don't I?!) So back to the process. As becoming non relative foster parents we are on the lowest of the totem pole of importantance. Meaning court ordered and relative licensing comes as a priority. Of course the 4-5 month time frame also is in place because so many kids and very few workers. They are stretched thin and holding many titles that come along with their job. I am very thankful we have been placed with one who is kind and very informative also quick to respond doesn't hurt either. So that in a nut shell is the reason why we haven't completed our license and why our family isn't quite expanding at the moment. But I keep reminding myself this is a perfect opportunity for preparation. I will go in more detail on that in a later post. Gotta keep you coming back for more!

For everything there is a season,
a time for every activity under heaven.

Ecclesiastes 3:1