WOW - HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN?

It has been a LONG time since I opened this blog.  I started out with lots of info on adoption, foster care, scrapbooking, sewing, quilting, etc.........  

No excuses.  I did not forget.  Life just got in the way and I did not post like I wanted to.  Well those days are gone and new days of here.

I guess since I started this blog Hurricane Ike ate our house.  We rebuilt (moved out to rebuild and then back in).  Vowed to NEVER move again.  That did not last long.  Corporate sent us to Alaska for a couple of years.  That did not last long.  I missed my kids. So we moved back.  Two more 6000 mile moves in less than 2 years.  Actually 3 moves.  We moved in with my sister until we found our house we wanted to buy.  By we I mean me, husband, 3 kids, a lab and a german shepard.  My sister is a saint, what can I say.

Well I am making myself a promise to post AT LEAST once a week.  

If you have suggestions, this is the place to leave them.

Blessings,

Barbara

ADOPTION - HOW DO YOU DO IT?

Yes, it is true, you CAN adopt thru the state agencies but IT IS NOT EASY! We have FIANLLY completed our second adoption. If you work for CPS, you might NOT want to read further. While I am completely happy with the opportunity God has given us to adopt Staci and Faith, I do NOT like the system. It is ever so dang hard to do good work thru such a broken system.

If there are so many children to be adopted, why don't the workers move with something other than the speed of molasses on a cold winter morning? It is like death by slow multilation, trying to adopt thru this broken system. I am firmly convinced the only reason we have been able to complete these 2 adoptions is that God brought them to our home BEFORE there was a need for adoption. His timing is perfect!

Yes, I do sound a little bitter and that is only because I am. All I hear is that there are "SO MANY CHILDREN NEEDING HOMES, BLAH BLAH BLAH". That is what happens when you have 2 empty places in your home that is licensed for adoption and you cannot get children placed. We have inquired on many children available for adoption over the last couple of years but rarely even here a "thank you for your inquiry but we have chosen another family", much less a simple thank you. Maybe that goes back to the fact that no one rsvp's, reutrns phone calls, sends thank you notes, or has any social graces any longer.