Firsts

28 years ago I became a brother for the first time. 9 years ago I became a husband for the first and last time. 2 years ago I became a Dad for the first time. 1 year ago I became an uncle for the first time. And now I am using my first post on this blog to talk about my first second time as a Dad.

That may not make a lot of sense but it is very simple. About 3 or 4 months ago Kellie and I decided that we would go back on the vacancy list for another placement through CPS. This time would be different than the others in that we would be only taking adoption or legal risk placements. I won't go into what this means as I am sure that Kellie has covered this before but suffice to say any children that we have in our house from here on out would be staying with us instead of having a chance that they would go back. We had 3 foster placements since we adopted our boys and they have all been tests for our family for one reason or another. There have only been a couple of emails from our case worker since we went adoption only about possible placements and right now we are waiting (mostly) patiently to find out if we have been picked. As with everything in this process it takes time and without our wonderful case worker we wouldn't have any idea what is going on. We hope to hear something on Wednesday the 8th but either way this goes down we are praying for this little one to be where God wants her to be. We are not sure yet when we will actually have her if we are picked but that would make another great Christmas present... much like the boys 2 years ago.

I know that Kellie is so much better at keeping everybody up to date and nobody really wants my 2 cents but I figured that I would start putting it out there anyways. I have started my own little "crafty" hobby that I will post later with some pics to go along with all of Kellie's projects.

-Patrick