SunshineinCA, glk,
I would like to talk with you further about your experience in California and what county you are in. I am just starting the process and I really liked your post. You sound so much like our situation as far as wants and needs. We want to adopt a foster child we will be matched with but are also willing to just foster until the child that is meant to be ours comes into our lifes (hopefully the first one). We are planning on doing the "concurrent planning" where the bp have a very poor prognosis but of course there is no guarentee. We are really hoping for a newborn/infant. I would love to be able to talk privately with you about "everything" so please email me at
kristy-mark@cox.net as I would like to get to know you better. Of course I would also understand if you did not feel comfortable with emailing.
glk-- your story also inspired me as it has taken me a long time to get the point of doing fost/adopt after going through 4 years of infertility and now that I have been "pushed" in this new direction and only starting the process I am starting to think that this is what I was always meant to do.
BrandyHagz-- I agree with you that you mostly hear the bad stories which can be very discouraging but I feel I should give it a shot. I hope to have a good experience and feel that if I do my share of the "work" and be my own advocate I can make this work for me and not against me. Time will tell.
I just found this site last night and feel like I will fit right in. I hope to get to know others on here and to learn a lot. Now that I have found all of you I will be around a lot more reading and posting to my heart's content.
CaFostAdopter (to-be)