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Oh I do this for the $$$ ..just kidding!!
I said JUST KIDDING!!
We had been married for 21 years, with thoughts of babies, long gone. The very thought that we could have kids one day, wasn't even imaginable. We had our lives laid out. Go fishing, shopping, to flea markets or do anything we wanted at the drop of a dime.
We had thought about adopting, early on in our marriage, but all we had heard about was infant adoptions and all the thousands of dollars it cost.
That is......until one Friday afternoon, we get a call from DCS, (we knew some people that worked for the state and they knew we'd be great parents) asking us if we wanted to foster this baby that was seriously medically fragile. After I picked myself up off the floor, I told her yes. She told me "great" she'll be leaving the hospital on Monday.
After I hung up, I thought what in the world did I just do. I know nothing about medically fragile kids, specially shaken babies, and we had nothing for a baby in our home. Am I CRAZY!!! We had 3 days to do some POWER shopping, to get everything setup.
Monday rolled around, an we waited and waited and waited, until about 5:30 that evening. The cw came in and laid butterball L in my arms. And at that moment, I knew that this is what I was meant to do.
Even though I knew she wasn't my baby...yet.
We didn't even have our homestudy, classes or anything at this point. But they worked it out for us to do everything that needed to have been done to be licensed.
We later found out that, out of all the foster parents for our county, NOBODY wanted L. They were affraid of her and what it took to care for her.
I thank God everyday that they were!!
Looking back now, I can't remember what my life was without her, nor would I ever want to go back to it.
With B, he was given to me. I truely believe this (headache story)
I do this because: I need them , just as much as they need me.
I keep doing this because: My heart won't let me fail them.
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