Making a difference...One Starfish at a time

Our family started fostering back in 2005. We have been blessed to love on many babies. There has been many twists and turns throughout our journey and in December of 2010 we were called for placement of a newborn baby boy. His biological mother worked a case plan for 18 months and after 23 months she surrendered her rights and we adopted 'Sprout' in December of 2012. Our faith has been tried and tested and we are still certain that God is faithful!

January 28, 2011

So many of you have requested an invite to my private blog but you NEED to leave me an email address. 
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With the agency merging with the county there are SO many changes.  The agency worker is here twice a month.  Today he brought Sprout home from the visit.  He stayed for a while and we chatted.  With Sprout being so young I think him sleeping in the car seat qualifies as 'observing him in the home'.  Anyway,  we had a very open conversation today and  I was given some new info that made me very emotional.  (That info can be found here)  I am trying SO hard to just be a spectator on this journey but holding Sprout and staring into his sweet eyes makes it impossible to NOT fall in LOVE with him.  I DO trust God.  If you want to know how best to pray...pray that I am able to FULLY release someone at the county for wronging me.  I do forgive her but I don't want anything standing in the way of Sprout being ours forever.  After the worker left...Sprout and I had an interesting conversation in which he ended with an (almost) smile :) 
He melts me!!  I am looking forward to the future and I trust that God has good things planned for Sprout AND for us!

2 comments:

FootPrints said...

gosh. you seriously inspire me to be a better foster mommy. to be not so selfish. and to keep trusting god.

Penelope said...

I know how you feel! I fell in love at first sight for the first time in my life when I picked up our Lil Bit. We had another baby boy for only 4 days and I was getting attached. Bless you and all the starfish you touch.