Introducing Myself

Hi!! I am a 30 year old mama to a 2.5 year old daughter. I am married and my husband works outside the home, I have chosen to stay home with my daughter until she is school-aged. However, I do have a bachelor's degree in elementary education and a master's in special education. I have extensive experiences with "typically" developing children as well as children with special needs. I have always wanted to adopt a child, but never considered fostering. However, after some research, I feel like this is the best route for us. I would preferably like to foster-to-adopt. We would like to foster/adopt a child that is around my daughter's age (no older than 3). We are open to gender, ethnicity, etc. I am a newbie, as I just contacted the Department of Child Services in our area today. The woman I talked to was incredibly sweet and assigned us to a licensing worker and is sending out training information, etc. in the mail. Thanks for taking the time to read this!! If anyone has any tips or suggestions, I would appreciate it :) :)