That is certainly not the title of the post I wanted to be writing today. Let me explain what happened. I mentioned in my last blog that they were rushing to find out how to get us the adoption portion of the training. Well, I'm going to make a long story short and part of it is because I have some not so nice things to say about the way we were told all of this. I'll keep that to myself since this blog is public. After waiting and waiting to get someone to contact us about this it turns out that all of the classes are full for this month. We should be able to get into one next month. Here's the catch. Next month is too late. The staffing to choose his family is at the end of this month and you can not be considered if you don't have this training.
As soon as I found out I called our licensing worker. If you don't know what a licensing worker is (because I sure didn't until recently), she is the social worker that deals with the foster care end of our journey. A permanency worker is the one that deals with the adoption end. So I called her, because I really like her and respect her, to ask what we should do. She was very bummed to hear what had happened and encouraged us to get into the next training we can so this will never happen again. We didn't go into this expecting to adopt but if we do find ourselves here again we will be ready. She also said that since we are no longer being considered for him they can start putting foster placements with us.
So that's where we stand. We are hoping to get into next month's training and in the meantime we are waiting for a foster placement. I've shed my fair share of tears over this. We knew that the chances of losing him were there. We also know that this is without a doubt the path we were asked to walk. This opened our eyes to boys and it will also allow us to have the adoption portion of the training faster than we would have otherwise so we can be prepared should God choose to place a child in our family permanently. It's all good....just pretty sad.
3 comments:
Sorry to hear that you didn't get the boy. But you're right, God has you on this path for a purpose, and all we can do is trust Him. I'll keep you guys in my prayers!
So sorry about this. I know it is hard, but hopefully you will get all of your training done next month and be ready if another little one comes available.
So sorry to hear that because of a class( which considering your vast parenting experience...you certainly could teach rather than attend) you have lost the chance to be chosen to parent the little guy. You are in my prayers and I anxiously await hearing where your path takes you next...
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