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Background story: We were signed up a year ago to attend the required informational meeting prior to starting classes when I found out that I was pregnant & it would be high risk. We missed the meeting due to doctors appt & decided to hold off, ended up miscarrying the baby & needed some time to heal emotionally before opening my heart to a child.
Fast forward this year, so far everything is running so smoothly! Meeting is tonight & the classes are scheduled perfectly over the summer so that we can be licensed before my husband goes back to school (he is a teacher) so he doesn't have to miss any work, maybe even have the home studies done.
Anyway, so we have been feeling really good about things & continue getting positive signs that we are on the right path. I had started a wish list on Amazon, mainly for a shopping list for myself & later for family if they ask to contribute. One of the biggest items was a bunk bed. I found the exact one on craigslist for $50 compared to $200 online, it was in perfect condition, but had been posted a week prior so thought for sure it was spoken for but emailed anyway. It was still available! So, I tell her that I'm very interested & make arrangements to pick it up. Turns out, she is a social worker, & when I told her that we were prepping for foster care she gave me a mattress, too. Slightly used, but great condition. She was holding on to it for sleepovers but she insisted on giving it to me. I'll still need to buy one mattress for it, but it saved us some money & we already have one bed available!
What are the chances of a random craigslist transaction to connect a prospective foster parent with a social worker?! Granted, she works primarily with the elderly, but since she has children & did her training with CPS so she has a heart for people that foster. I thought it was neat. We have had so many little signs along the way that we are feeling very blessed & excited. Can not wait til our meeting tonight!!!!!
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Congratulations! My husband is a teacher too and I would have been a lot wiser to do classes, homestudy and set up the room while he was on break. I didn't because I wasn't thinking logically :o but at least we are done now and thinking our first placement could happen in June when I've got a "stay at home dad" on deck. Isn't it nice when things go smoothly? I had some great luck with my bedroom setup too and my sister-in-law thought it might be a sign that the rest of our journey would go well too. Enjoy the next phase!
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thanks, friends!
trishy, i think having the husband home during the transition is a fantastic idea. if we didn't have to drive an hour for the 3-hour classes we probably wouldve gone that route instead. really, it was more about the timing, anyway, i really needed that year to recover from the miscarriage & make sure we were doing this for the right reason, not just to replace our baby.
the meeting went well today & i am looking forward to working on the bedroom more later this week.
Will do, Trishy! There is a fostering teacher at my husband's school that has been giving us some insight which has been soooo helpful, but she says its not necessary to do all the preparation that I'm doing. I know its not really necessary, but I want to do all that I can so things go smoothly later, & its just easier financially to get good deals as we go rather than all at once later. Obviously I won't decorate too much, I want it to be specific to what the child wants & hopefully help pick it out. Maybe its silly, but I feel better doing something. So glad I'm not the only one!
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