[twinflana]

I pulled my husband kicking and screaming into this, but when I placed the first baby (she was 2 days old) in his arms that was it he fell in love he enjoys the children but hates!!!!!! dealing with the caseworkers, I try to keep him out of that so that he doesnt get upset with them.

[nesesweetgirl]

Hi madfostermom, We might have the same husband. I had been wanting to adopt and/or foster for awhile but my husband always had an excuse. So I finally gave up hope and started working on other things to keep my mind off of it. A little before a year, he brought up the subject again out of the blue. I ask if he was serious and we started classes a few months later. We went from dec. to sept. with no placement but I don't think he minded. Also I think he thought I would give up and he wasn't have to do it anymore. I have to beg over and over for him to go to the classes or take the tests for the credit hours we need to keep our licenses. I told him last month I would not remind him again and if we lost our licenses because of him not getting his hours in, he would not live it down.

[lakin11]

We both had talked about adoption, but I was the one who decided NOW was the time we should pursue it. We can to our knowledge, have bios, but just have not at this point. When we'd talked before, it was always after we had bios. But I just felt God calling us to start now. So we started looking into intl adoption first, and after much reading, praying, chatting w/ friends, reading, reading, praying praying, etc, we turned to foster care. DH was very much the one pushing to do foster/adopt. I wanted to, but was scared of letting them go. Granted, I still worry how hard that day will be, but in the meantime, have learned to love these kids and let God worry about that day.
DH would also take more special needs than I feel comfortable with right now. I know that I'm the one who will be home with them all day and right now, my limits are different. We'll still see one day about that.
DH was very bored during the classes....he hated going, but made it through. He does none of the paperwork, but makes up for that by being an awesome dad. The kids worship him! The second he walks in the door they go crazy. He's been good at taking off time from work to go to court with me and be at as many things as he can.
I'd say we are both in this 110% now.

[lostboys]

My husband was the one who origionally wanted to FC. We take teen foster boys and normally have 5-6 boys at a time. He is the one who stays home with the boys and is the primary care giver. He has his own consulting business so he can work his hours to work around the boys schedule. He also does all the cooking and cleaning. The boys of course have chores to do. and I usually do laundry because I don't like thge way anyone else does it.

I also never pass up a chance to brag on my wonderful husband..Thans for the oppurtunity!