Our Foster Care Journey

Well our girls left at the end of January. It was pretty hard for us. We had told the case worker we wanted them to be transition in May so that the oldest could finish out the year in her kindergarten class. Well they were not very nice and just moved them as soon as they could. I had cried for two days straight and Steven was very upset as well. But they ended up going to the grandparents of the people that want to adopt them. Which are the same family that had them before they were placed with us. We called and checked up on them a week later and the oldest didn't really care to talk to us and was fine but the younger one who was very attached to Steven which is crazy because when she first arrived she wanted nothing to do with guys. She talked and talked and talked to me and then to Steve. She kept having problems at school when she was still at our house. So she told Steve that she had been good at school so we need to let her come back home. It was very heartbreaking for both of us. Especially Steven. So we haven't called them back since we figured it isn't fair for them or us. We had them in our home for 6 months. It was a very good learning experience for both of us. We learned things that I think most parents will never learn and we have learned things that will hopefully make us good parents with the twins. Since we had such a hard time with the girls leaving we decided to pray to either keep up with our license or stop until the twins get older. The answer we got was to stop the foster care for a while and focus on the twins and then we will see where life takes us. We are very grateful for the experience that we had with the whole foster care program and were very grateful we helped these two little girls for a short while. I think that more than anything they helped us.