Planning on FP
Hubby and I have been married for over a year and a half, and unfortunatly unable to have children of our own. Since we got word of my infertility and we both still had soo much love we wanted to share with a child, we have been casually talking back and forth about adopting. Yesterday in the Sunday paper there was an insert discussing this huge need of foster parents in our area, a huge smile came over my face, I knew this was something I would want to do.
Now comes the waiting, we are currently renting a place, but will be buying his grandmother's house after Christmas!! One of the back bedrooms has a room that needs to be refinished right off of it, wich we been wondering what in the world we are going to do with the large extra room (use to be a garage). Well the plan is now to finish the room and get it ready to be a play room. My mind has been racing all night. But the wait is going to have to be there for at least a year, I'm still have a little bit left of school before I get my certification in Special Education.
We have discussed what our forster child "criteria" would be, it seems to us any child is a blessing and we would love deeply no matter what but we were able to kinda set a little limitations... really only to help us out with limited space to store a wide range of age apporiate materials, from infants- 7yrs old, we have no objections to any sex or race. We would really love to get placed with siblings, one of the articles was talking about how many sibling sets had to be seperated when put in foster homes, I nearly cried. I have a sister who is only 11months younger than I am, and she was my best freind growing up I could not imagine ever being seperated from her. So to say, when the time comes, we are going to put in a strong interset in siblings.
Since I have a while to wait before we are going to start the process, I'm taking this time to learn everything I can. Going into education and working in a daycare while going to college I think is going to help me a lot since I have no children of my own to have draw in any expertise in child raising.
So if anyone has anyone has any helpful hints, or books, web site or anything that you think will help out I'm open, too much knowlege has never hurt anyone.
Melissa~ Greenville, SC
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