Saying goodbye to the foster kids and winding down....

Well it's time for another big change in our house.  The time has come to say good bye to the brother and sister (ages 12 and 8 now) that we've been foster parents to for a year this month.   The process to get them back home has started with weekend visits and talking through the transition with all parties.It's not easy saying goodbye but in this case the adjustment wont be so hard for us as there was never any pretense about them being anything but foster children.  They are adorable and nice kids that any parent would be proud to call their own.  We'll miss them dearly.

We're also debating putting a moratorium on foster children for the short term.  We want to focus on adoption and it has been our experience that being foster parents has distracted both us and the foster care system we work with from our original goal.  The reality is that there are SO MANY CHILDREN that need safe places for the short term (foster care) that it is overwhelming.  There is such a pressing need to put these kids out of harms way that the adoption cases seem to get less attention.

When these kids go home it will be a quiet house and for the first time in almost 2 years, it will be just Rob and me in our home.  Hopefully the tactic of not being foster parents will reinvigorate our attempts to become adoptive parents.Stay tuned!

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• 21 September 2009
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