Fostering 101

Don't let the title fool you; this is not a post meant to inform you on how to be a foster parent, or what it's like to be foster parent.  I am highly unqualified for such a class.  However, Phillip and I are currently enrolled in such a class.  Here are some general impressions:

• If paperwork could kill you, we'd be dead. (Sorry for the cliche.)
• If being highly unorganized makes someone qualified, the organization through which we are receiving training is the best.  Ever.
• If you sit through the first two classes as we have, and you don't imagine the most delinquent child you can think of coming into your home, a home which you have tried to keep very safe for your own children, then your classes are being taught very differently than ours.
• If once you sit in such classes, you decide that you can't wait to get a child from the system to love unconditionally and to teach Truth and its Author, then you should go to class three.  This is where we are.

I hope to blog about our experiences; perhaps I will make it a series as I have with other topics on this blog. Perhaps I will be too busy. We are adding a third job to our schedule to help make ends meet.  We need another vehicle. (The van is currently in the shop, and we are a one-car family using a vehicle with no heater during the coldest week of the season so far.)  Are we doing the right thing?  Why are things not working out perfectly?

Because we are doing the right thing.

And I can't wait.