Showing posts with label foster Kids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label foster Kids. Show all posts

Saturday, August 27, 2011

New Normal

The has been so much change in my life! I need to make an update soon!
but for now I should try to go to bed....

Our foster baby Sam is going back home and it is soooooo hard to let them go...we fall in love with every child that comes into our home. It is strange that with every child our family changes and a new normal kind of occurs.

Sam was here for 9 months and in those 9 months we have seen this sweet boy grow by leaps in bounds. He is intelligent and can carry on a conversation as if he were a 6 year old. He has a humor and a laugh that gets everyone around him laughing and wondering what he is going to say or do next. Sam is a boy that loves to ride scooters, bikes, plays with balls, trucks and roll in the dirt. This sweet boy has a way of touching all those around him. everyone wants to play with Sam or be with him... He is full of personality!!!!

Although he is only gone on a weekend visit I miss him so much, its so crazy how fast these little ones become a part of your life and when you say goodbye, we pray and trust that God is going to guide, protect and keep them safe... He is going back home and I am so excited for his family!!! don't get me wrong, but we still miss Sam and try to create a new normal without him.

Lindsay

Monday, October 13, 2008

Her laugh is a faint memory




It has almost been a year since we found out that our sweet “N” was not going to be living with us anymore and return home.. tonight I was laying in my bed getting ready to sleep and I began to pray for Charlie, who has his surgery in less than 6 hours, For Feisty man and seeing how far he has come these past 7 months, and PRAISING GOD for the life of A-man and the miracles that are already being done in his body… these past two years of my parents being foster parents have brought on many great trials of joyfulness of being able to love on every kid who walks through the doors and time of sorrow of having to trust God as we let go some of the ones we grew closest to, each child with a different story and but know that God has his hand on each one of their lives. When I found out “N” was leaving I was playing with her and took a recording of her sweet voice on my cell phone, as weird as that may sound I still listen to it every now and then just to be able to hear her voice for one last time. I miss her so much and I wish that I could see her. all the little babies I see, I think of “N” how soon she is going to be two, how she is now walking, talking more than ever and is now a big sister!!. How I wish for just one second I could see this little Girl God's and has been on her life from the start of her life.. How when she came to us she was so small, tiny, and lifeless …but we loved her and prayed for God to work in her life.. after 9 months of her living with us she was totally different baby who was full of life, joy, and zest for life. soon after she turned 1 she was gone just like that................. above all I pray and hope that she can become who God created to be, that she can live life to the fullest. I may never see her again but I am praying for her knowing that God is in control of her Precious life! I am thankful for her because she taught me so much about how to live life to the fullest and to love everyone no matter what they are going through.. she taught me alot about faith and trusting God to take care of it. she was only 1 when she left but she forever changed me.

I am so thankful for Charlie and the two other boys! they are simply amazing! today Charlie and Fiest man were soo good in church!! I was watching them cause my mom was at the hospital with A-man, and my was in jail (okay, so he was preaching at the jail this sunday).. but I was giving the boys some food to eat when Mrs, D who was my boss this summer for camp pulled me aside and asked me, "What is going on with you dad?" I replied "he is at the jail preaching" mrs D looked at me "Okay that makes sense because I asked Charlie your dad was and he said that he was in jail, I told charlie that his dad isnt in jail but charlie but he insisted that he was because you told him.... I just wanted to make sure that everything was okay and nothing happend...." I was like oh he is fine... and we laughed about it.. and I told charlie that daddy was coming home to see him later after he got done preaching.. I just had a good time with the boys, playing football in the house, coloring, watching tv, and just being with them! they are the most amazing boys EVER!!!