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My husband called our local DHS this morning and found out that the case worker for our side of town is on vacation for a couple of weeks. He talked to the other case worker for our town and she said as long as we don't have any criminal history or any negative dealings with cps (which we don't!) then she doesn't see any problem with fostering as long as the kids are younger than ours. She is sending us out an invitation to the next set of classes which start in June. She did say that starting out with the adoption class and trying to get matched may be a slow process because of the disruption, that sw's might not take the reasoning into consideration, so fostering would be a better option.

We have looked at foster care for around 6 years and my husband always wanted to do it in the future. In the last week we have had a front page article in our newspaper about foster/adoption and we have been called by friends looking for adoptive parents of our specific religion for a sibling set. They decided not to place them out of state, but the combination of these things really got us to thinking that now is the right time. Plus we got a 7 passenger vehicle a couple of months ago so we could take siblings.

Thanks for the replies,

Melissa