Our family has grown by 3

Well as most of you know we now have three additions to our family. What a change it has brought to our home. We have 2 girls ages 3&5 and a boy that will soon be 2. They keep us on our toes but we couldn't be happier with our decision. In the 3 weeks that they have been with us we have seen such a change in them (and us). The way God moves is amazing.

First call...ahhh

We got our first call today from DHS. this is about how it went......
~Hello this is (unsure) from (not sure what she said) can I speak to Andy or Amanda
~This is Amanda
~We were wondering if you had room for a sibling placement (lights finally came on) 4 & 6 year old boys.
~ummmm (Long Pause) (probably awkwardly long Pause) Well......probably not
~OK thanks
end of call

I felt so clueless. I didn't know what to ask her. After this call was over I found a website that has a list of questions to ask when you get this call. I guess next time I will be more prepared.
Well....I am probably not ready for a 4 AND 6 year old boys. I just trust God knew what he was doing through that phone call.

Approved!!!!

I got a call about an hour ago.........WE ARE A LICENSED FOSTER CARE HOME!!!!

Just thought I would let all of you know

The wheels are turning Again!!!!

Well...Our support worker should be turning in all of our paperwork today to DHS. What a stressful couple of weeks. For those of you who don't know I will fill you in. A couple of weeks ago our support worker told us that we HAD to be a registered daycare before we could be licensed as a foster home. We had an idea about this and I sent the paper work in in March. Well, I called the ladies down at the daycare registration office and they told me"yes we have had your paperwork since March but we haven't gotten your background check in yet" She told me that she would resubmit it and we would have to go from there. (Usually a background check takes no more than 2 weeks) Our support worker told us that we could not move forward until this was done, but we only had until June 1st or we would have to take the whole class over again. So we have been doing a lot of praying and calling the registration office . Well after much anticipation we got our daycare registration on Thursday. PRAISE GOD!!!!!
So that is where we are now. DHS should have it approved by June 1st. After that we should have a child within 2-4 weeks. We are so excited to bring this child into our home. We know that God has amazing timing and he had this planned all along!

God as our Treasure

The man who has God for his treasure has all things in One. Many ordinary treasures may be denied him, or if he is allowed to have them, the enjoyment of them will be so tempered that they will never be necessary to his happiness. Or if he must see them go, one after one, he will scarcely feel a sense of loss, for having the Source of all things he has in One all satisfaction, all pleasure, all delight. Whatever he may lose he has actually lost nothing, for he now has it all in One, and he has it purely, legitimately and forever.
The pursuit of God A.W. Tozer

FINALLY DONE

We are finally done with all of our classes!!! Last night they said that the latest that we would be lisenced would be June 1st. We are getting really excited and really nervous at the same time. I really don't feel any more capable of rasing a child than I did before the class started. God is going to have to teach me everystep of the way because I know without Him guiding me I am bound to mess something up.

Nearing the END

We are nearing the end of our classes. Thursday is our last class. We are really excited!!! After that we will have one more home visit. Then DHS will have to approve our paperwork. This class has seemed to just fly by.
I am going to have to find something new to write about after the class is over.