The 5 W's

Who?

What?

Where?

When?

Why?

I've answered the Who? question. So, to get into more detail about the What? question...

Obviously, from previous posts you can gather that we're taking classes with the local Department of Social Services to become licensed foster/adoptive parents.

I don't feel a strong desire to get pregnant right now, but I have a very intense desire to care for a child. This is a strange feeling to have, based on what i've experienced in society because as a woman, typically, the two go hand in hand. I don't think that has to be the case though and I see fostering/adopting as a way of living a life committed to something larger than ourselves.

Fostering a child will open our lives up to an experience that can not compare to any other, an experience that will change us completely (in, hopefully, very positive ways). We want to foster a baby and/or toddler. Fostering to adopt would be the best situation we could get however, the goal for most children, taken into custody as children of the state, is to be reunited with their birth family. While this will be the most difficult thing to deal with emotionally- seeing a child grow, becoming a positive influence and example, and then reuniting that child (saying goodbye) with their birth family- I am sure that, together, we can do this.

Because together, we're not afraid to try new adventures.

Together, we've taken on the responsibility of this guy.

And together, we've made the biggest purchase of our lives...