[tashak3]

My NV DCSF training group of six who completed training in August this year included me (slightly over 60, looking for one or two girls age 7-17. preferably 14-18), another gal c.57, and a couple (second marriage? c. 56-60). Don't know how typical that is.

I'm still completing paperwork--have the fingerprinting and TB test done, and appointment scheduled for medical letter, and trying to locate CPR class--it is still fire season here so the local rural fire departments aren't offering it right now. Hopefully appts. will speed up in early Oct.--they seem harder to do than assembling, filling out, and photocopying the papers. (Things seem to get misplaced/lost when out of one's own hands, messages not returned within two weeks, in this state. Sometimes the can-do vaunted spirit is a didn't-do one, other times people are really efficient and helpful.)

Anyone else here interested in older nonrelative child foster/adopt? It's been about 30 years since I last fostered (in urban area in another state), but I'm game to go again. My birth daughter is educated, married and working in another state, and after some five years of nonparenthood, I miss it.

Any other emptynesters here hoping to do the DCFS foster/adopt route?

[merriemama]

Another single Georgia mom here! I adopted my MaryGrace through a private, domestic adoption. She was 13 days old and I was 39. She's almost 7 and I just turned 46. It's been a WONDERFUL journey!! We even have a "theme song". I used to sing it to her when she was a baby, and now she'll burst into song and we both end up singing and dancing to the song! Sort of crazy, I know, but it's all in fun! It's from the movie "American Tail" and goes:

We're a duo, a duo!
A pair of lonely ones
who were meant to be a two!
A duo! It's true-o!
Cause you've got me and
I've got you!!

There's nothing like parenting! Go for it!
Robyn