Six years ago today I married my best friend. And good news -we’re still best friends! 🙂 Life has definitely not turned out the way I thought it would back then. I thought by six years of marriage we’d have at least three kids with at least three more to go. And for some people, dealing with infertility can really take a toll on their marriage. That hasn’t happened for us. In fact, I think our marriage is actually stronger because of the things we’ve gone through together. We communicate really well with each other and I feel like I can talk to Devan about anything.
And now we’re starting a new journey together. We’re currently taking foster care training classes and we’re hoping to foster-to-adopt. Adoption has always been something I’ve considered but foster care has always been scary because you know you may only have the kids for a short time and I knew that would be heart-breaking and I just didn’t want to deal with that. It’s amazing how our perspective has changed while going through the training classes. It’s no longer about us and our desires to have a permanent family -it’s about the children and their need and right to have a safe, loving place to live while their birth parents get some things taken care of. And in the situations where the child or children can’t go back to their birth parents, we’d love to be able to provide them with a permanent home.
We know there will be many challenges and lots of heartbreak along the way but we feel really good about this. We really feel that this is the path our Heavenly Father wants us to take right now so unless we don’t get approved for some reason or something drastic happens in our lives that would change our course, this is what we’ll be doing. And we’re really excited about it. We’re also scared and nervous but mostly excited. 🙂 We can’t wait to see what happens in this new chapter of our lives.