Waiting, waiting, waiting

I was able to email yesterday with the social worker who is doing the update for our foster license. We are going to be licensed for 1 foster child who is newborn to two years old and one "legal risk" foster child who is newborn to five years old. Basically what that means is that the newborn to two year old child will be a child only in foster care. This child may not be available for adoption. But we will also be licensed for a foster child who IS available for adoption just in case one comes up so that we could have either. It gives us a lot more options.

We have to have an addendum done to our original paperwork. So more waiting, waiting, waiting. I'm hoping maybe it will be done this week or next week. But since we are being fairly age specific on the babies that we would accept, it might be longer until we actually have another child in our home.

Patience becomes the word to live by when adopting or fostering. It is hard. Sometimes you just wish you knew when your kids were coming home so that you could plan. It is interesting because I'm guessing when you have a baby, you at least know that you are having a newborn and most of the time you even know if it is a boy or a girl, and you know about the time it will be born. For us, we don't know any of that. We don't know age, we don't know sex, we don't know when they will come.

For the foster baby, we could get a call and have the baby come home that very day. Nothing like excitement in life :). We are getting excited about the possible changes in our lives. And still waiting to get the paperwork in order so that we can wait to hear that a baby is coming into our home for a few days, weeks, months, or forever.