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!

April 9, 2011

Sometimes, when I look at him sleeping in his crib, I am STILL in AWE that he is here.  I hold him in my arms and breathe him in and  thank God for giving me the opportunity to love him and to have him in our home.  When I see his tiny socks or diapers laying around I remember how good God is.  In my heart I truly WANT to believe that God himself handed this baby to us.  But I can't wrap my head around that.  So for now...I am planning on handing my sweet baby boy over to his biological mother this summer.  I am trying to prepare myself {and my family} for Sprout leaving us.  I would rather be prepared then have the rug pulled out from under us.  Does this mean my faith is gone??  No.  I HAVE TO do this.  I need to mentally tell myself EVERYDAY that he could leave.  This baby boy has been slowly weaving himself into our family from the minute we found out about him a month before he was even born.  He will leave an enormous hole when he leaves.  But I know that God will redeem Sprout's time here.  I don't know when or how but I trust that He will.  His plan is bigger than ours is. 
Some crazy news I can't share on this blog can be found over here.

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