Quick Decisions

After our recent decision to attempt to adopt out of the foster care, I did some research and have made some calls. For the most part, those calls were dead ends. While the agencies/contacts I spoke with deal with foster adoptions, all of them are approved to handle adoptions for children older than 10, which doesn't fit our criteria since we want to keep Nate as our oldest child.

After playing phone tag for a few days, I got in touch with Hampton Social Services today. They do agree that finding a child younger than Nate makes the search a little more difficult, she was very excited to get us started on our journey. Besides the home study process and the background checks, etc, they require that we take a 9 week class, meeting on Tuesday nights, that would teach us more about the process and how things are handled. Unfortunately, this class has already started and is in its 3rd week and they won't have another class starting until late fall.

Bummer, right? Well, after getting some information about us and learning more about our adoption background, she would like for us to join the class, something they don't normally allow, THIS Tuesday, as in April 9th. She put a package in the mail for us this afternoon and we have to give an answer asap after the package arrives. If we say yes, we will officially start our foster adoption classes in less than a week, meaning we have to schedule childcare and find a way for Dave to change his work schedule (he currently works on Tuesday nights).

Needless to say, my head is spinning. Lots to think about and many decisions to be made. Will you join us in prayer as we make decisions?