We're LICENSED!

YAY!!!!!! Josh and I found out this weekend that we're officially a licensed foster home! Now, the next phone call we should be receiving will be for placement of children in our home, not paperwork!

We'll keep you updated! Keep praying!

Heidi and Josh

Prayer for our Kiddo(s)

Hi Everyone!

Sorry... no new updates yet, but I wanted to ask you all to consider praying for our future kiddo(s). We don't know them yet, we don't know if there is one or if there are two in our near future, but we do know that God has them taken care of and is preparing them to come into our home. Please pray:

-for their safety

-for their health

-for their upcoming trauma: it's likely that the children placed in our home will be coming straight from their biological families and will most likely be confused, and upset.

-for their biological family: most likely they don't know the Lord.

-for Josh and I: that our hearts will be patient and fully prepared for the child(ren) that God has planned to place with us.

-for our case manager: that she would know the right time to call us with a placement option. She will most likely get more calls than she will feel are a fit for us.

-for our families: most of whom are far away, pray for their patience in waiting to be able to love on these kids too.

-for our church family: that they would be loving and accepting of any situation God brings us in a placement.

Thanks so much for all of your prayers so far! We'll keep you updated!

Heidi and Josh

Background Checks are IN!

We found out today that our background checks are in! Now, they are turning in our issue certificate and home study and we're waiting for our provider number (license)! They tell us that this process takes 2-4 weeks to complete. Obviously, we're hoping to be on the lower end of that, but we're really excited to have one more thing behind us!

It's kind of crazy to think that we will be a licensed foster home within the next month... and that the kiddo(s) we get could be the ones we will have FOREVER! Woo hoo! We're really excited!

Thanks for your prayers and also, I wanted to say thanks so much for actually reading our blog and for keeping yourself updated and informed! I sometimes wonder if anyone is even reading this and then I'll get a comment or a call after a post and it really lifts my spirit!

We can see the light at the end of this tunnel... and we're psyched!

Heidi and Josh