A time to share...

There is good news and bad news, but I think everything is as it should be.  Allow me to explain.  As some of you know, we have been working on a foster care license.  Well, last Friday morning I got a call that three little girls aged 6 months, 3 and 11 needed a home.  They were being removed in a severance case and I was asked if we were interested.

I already knew that mine and Matt's answer was yes, even though we would need to procure a twin sized bed for the 11 year old girl.  I told our contact yes and she started working paperwork on her end to finish our license and I started prepping the nursery for older girls.  (Luckily we still have a crib in our room.)

My wonderful visiting teaching companion, Maylene found us a twin sized bed with a pillow-top mattress!! for $10.00 and we started purchasing necessities that may or may not come with the children.  Bottles, car seat, etc...whatever they might need.

Amy came over and started running us through mountains of paperwork and luckily we have a scanner/copier/printer combo which we bought mom for Christmas or else we would have never been able to accomplish so much in such a short amount of time.

My fingerprint card still has not come yet, but it also has not been rejected either.  DiAnne is working on that.  I wish the state just build my prints like Utah built Leslie's for her nursing license, but Arizona doesn't see the point in building prints that don't actually exist...and quite frankly, they really are right.

So, we have been incredibly busy.  Amazingly busy, but we have accomplished so much in an incredibly short period of time.  Matt and I had our physicals and turned them in this week.  Mom's physical is scheduled for Monday...and I found a place that would do her physical without insurance for $40!!!

I cannot even begin to tell you how much the Lord has blessed us in our lives and in our home.  The blessings have been so amazing...and it doesn't stop with the bed or the physical either.

I needed to get both me and Matt CPR and First Aid certified.  I was told that there was a class at NPC  on January 21st and the cost was $40.00 per person.  No problem, right?  So I call to enroll us both.  They told me that we have to walk in and do it in person...both of us!  Eeeks!!  Okay, so what to do?

Mom and I decided to go enroll me.  I'm enrolling myself and I am talking the gal and mentioned that I needed to enroll Matt and why.  I told her that Matt was going to have someone take his detention students after school so he could come enroll in the class.  She told me that these classes fill up really fast and she gave me forms for him to sign and told me to just make sure I got his driver's license and brought it back with me...then she'd enroll him.  Wow!!

Is she awesome or what??!

So I went to the school and got Matt to sign and grabbed his license.  We got him into the last spot in the class!!  We are in the class on the 23rd because the class on the 21st was completely full already.  I was seriously counting my blessings already, but it didn't stop there.  I had mentioned about the problem I was running into finding someone to do mom's physical without insurance...and she gave me the name and number for her physician's assistant!  All I can say is that the Lord is leading me to all the right people to help me to stay on the right path so that I can do the work He wants and needs me to do.

Okay...so, the bad news.  We are not going to be getting the girls.  They found a kinship to take the girls, but there is a silver lining.  Almost all of our paperwork is completely done.  We are lacking just a few things for our license to be complete so, we on the top of the list to receive a child when they become available.  This means that it will not be long before we have a child placed with us.

I would be lying if I said I was not disappointed that we are not getting the girls, but I kind of had a feeling that we would not.  When these girls came available, DiAnne received inspiration that she needed to get on our license because we would make great parents for these girls.  I don't think that it was because we were necessarily supposed to become the parents for these particular girls, but the Lord wanted to spur things to action for us.  What a blessing for us!!


So, we are the top of the list and I have a very grateful heart.  We went to the temple last night and the spirit told me that I will be a mother...and that is all I need to know.  My trust in Him.

I am the Resurrection and the Life