It’s been a little over a year since I updated this blog. SO MUCH HAS HAPPENED! Sue is doing great and really thriving. She entered a Scholarship Pageant (much like a beauty pageant) and won Miss Congeniality…instantly turning this football loving gal into a pageant mom. Words I never thought I’d utter. She doing really good in school and about to get her driver’s license.
Every time Bair calls us about fostering a child or doing respite care, we have to say no for one reason or another. Therefore, in January, we made our house inactive. That means we still have our license with Bair but will not be keeping up with the training right now. Because of that, we cannot have foster kids in our house until we make the license active again. We can be inactive for up to one year.
The reason we are so busy:
1) The church ministry. Dave and I got trained in a parenting method for kids from hard places called Empowered To Connect. Our part in the ministry is to teach this parenting method to other parents. It’s a 9-week course. We have completed one full class and are in the middle of teaching our second group of parents.
2)We have been asked to be on the board of directors for a new adoption agency opening in our town. A group of people we’ve met through our journey have been unhappy with their agency. They want a faith based agency that truly has the children at the heart of the agency. Since there isn’t a good one in town, they decided to start one. We are in the beginning stages of this process, but we are so excited to be a part of it. I’ll leave it at that for now and give more detail in the weeks to come.
It’s been a very busy year. All I really have left to say today is that I’m tired!! (But it’s been totally worth it!)
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