Well we're continuing on this wild ride to become parents--we're sure it will happen somehow. The foster care placement that we were preparing for/hoping to happen this month didn't work out. We were possibly going to take a sibling pair of two kiddos, but when we visited with them for a weekend we realized they were just too much for us to handle. I'm glad that we had the opportunity to do a few visits before the kids moved in so that we could better understand what we were capable of. Originally we had told the agency we'd be willing to take up to two children age infant to 5 years old and we've since edited that to one child age infant to 2 years old. We went into the process a bit more confident in our ability to just jump in and parent two kids and now we know that we're better off starting with one. It was a great learning experience, although hard to let go of a placement that we were preparing for and wrapping our heads around.
We are fully certified by the agency pending our Virginia background checks. We've heard that in other cases Virginia has taken 3 months to send them back. Hopefully that's not the case for us. Once those are back we'll be able to accept placements as they become available, or really when the right fit comes along for us.
So we'll continue working on making a Baby Crate and we'll also work with the County to hopefully find a placement that is right for us.
EDIT: Just got news a few minutes ago that our Virginia background checks have been received! Now all we have to do is take an infant care class.
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