moving forward towards our journey

We didn't give any more thought to fosterparenting until about 3 years later. Me and my husband started talking about it again and prayed about it and decided it was time to become fosterparents. We really felt called to do this. We thought we will provide a loving home for these kids and care for them until their parents can get their act together and they are able to go home. Unfortunately we found out this is not reality. Only about 10% of the kids go home and out of those 25% go back into fostercare within the first year. But we were ready to move forward on this journey. We had to do everything over again because too much time had pasted.We were excited about the possibilities that were before us. We agreed to take in kids between the ages of newborn to 10 yrs old

our journey to fosterparent

I really felt when I had my first child that all children deserve to be wanted and live in a house full of love where there needs are met. I vowed that someday I wanted to do fostercare. I went on with life having several more children and didn't give much thought to it. Until about 8 yrs later and then I started talking to my husband about doing fostercare, he agreed that it was something that we should do. We checked into it, went through the orientation, the cpr and first aid classes, tb tested and had everything in place all we had left to do was the home inspection. We prayed about it and decided that our children were still too young and this wasn't the right time.

HOW MANY KIDS DO YOU HAVE?

When people see me with all the kids or they ask me how many kids I have and I answer 7 I usually get some type of response such as " How do you do it?" "Are you done?"," Do you know what causes that?" "Are they ALL yours?". When people find out that 3 of them are adopted, there whole tune changes and these same people who thought I couldn't possibly be a good mom to 7 children giving them what they need and providing for them suddenly act like I am GOD because I rescued and am giving these children a home. How come if I adopted them I can provide and take care of 7 children but If they are all my birth children there is no way I could do it and I must have a screw loose for having so many kids?
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more birthday pics

steve and caleb trying to dunk each other in the pool. Looks like the Dad is winning....

having fun in the pool

We had a bar bq and swim for my husbands birthday. We had such a fun time. He maybe getting old but he is still a fun dad. LOL.....

a dress for my daughter

this is the first time I have made any clothing except hats, scarfs,slippers and ponchos. I love it. I think it turned out great. It was alot easier then I thought it would be, so now I will have to make all kinds of clothing......

cradle purses

I made these cradle purses for my daughters and they love them, they are a bassinet for a little doll with a blanket and you fold it over and use the drawstring and it is a purse. These are so cute and easy to make.......