Earlier this year our family became licensed to provide foster care and we took our first placement soon after our license became active. The last 6 months have flown by and our foster care experience has been so different from what we were expecting. And I mean that in the best way possible :). Foster care is temporary and an amazing opportunity to love and care for a child and be part of the ministry of family reconciliation. When you provide a temporary home for a child it allows for the possibility of a permanent reconciliation to happen within a family. I enjoyed reading and learning from other foster families when we were starting this process. Below are the steps we took to become licensed in Arizona and also the reasoning behind why Josh and I ultimately said yes to becoming foster parents. THE PROCESS Our journey into becoming licensed as a foster family started all the way back in November of 2015. Our kids at the time were 4 and 2 years old. Josh and I knew we … [Read more...]
Our Adoption Story
Josh and I had the privilege this January to become licensed foster parents. This year has grown me in more ways then I can say. I have learned so much and I am so thankful for the amazing opportunity to be part of another child's life. This week our family adopted the sweet little person we have been loving and caring for over the last six months. Adopting our foster son has been an amazing and yet bittersweet experience. I have never felt such a deep loss for another person before. I think about and pray for our son's biological parents, I pray for the future conversations we will have with our son regarding his adoption, and I pray for our family to be a safe and secure place for him to learn and know what love is, how much we love him, but more importantly how much God loves him. We had the most amazing people from the Arizona Department of Child Safety advocating for our child. Words cannot fully express how honored our family has been to walk along side these individuals … [Read more...]
Vasectomies, Foster Parenting, & A Pregnancy Test
For the past several months Josh and I had been tossing around the idea of starting a podcast together. After years of writing this blog on my own, which I have loved, the last few months I have been at a loss at what to do with this space. If you hadn't noticed the frequency of my posting has dramatically declined. The reason for this is that my content has been copied and pasted and reposted word for word along with my photos on other websites. This is one of the reasons many of my posts with the kids images have been removed from this blog. If you have been a reader of this blog you know that Josh doesn't show up often here on The Workout Mama but in reality he is the biggest reason this blog even exists. He is such a huge supporter of me and my dreams and has always encouraged me in any venture I have wanted to pursue. He is my biggest fan and one of my favorite people and I am happy to call him my husband. Which is why I am super excited to introduce you to our new project … [Read more...]
