A Family for Every Child is dedicated to finding loving, permanent families for every waiting foster child. Our blog is focused on providing support to families who are thinking about or are a part of the foster care or adoption process.

Saturday, July 30, 2011

Summerdaze

Summer days are flowing along too fast for me.

Commercials on T.V. are already advertising sales on clothes and must haves for school.  This is my second year being in this exact spot in time, all while waiting (not always so patiently) for the news that we might have been selected to go to committee for adoption.

How many of you are in this same predicament?

My hopes were to have a child/children by the time summer came along, so that we could have all summer to get to know one another, to form some type of bond prior to school starting.  Last year, summer came and went in a daze.  Then our hopes turned to “maybe before Thanksgiving?” but no kiddos, then on to ‘well, maybe by Christmas?”…still no kiddos.  

This year rolled around and once again, I hoped and prayed fervently that our child would be with us before summer came.  Tantalizing thoughts of camping trips and smores lay before me.  Biking trips and day hikes.  Trips to the zoo and fishing along the banks of Buena Vista ponds.  

Yet, here I sit, with no child/kiddos.  

My heart is ready.  My home is ready.  We are ready, already.

Summer is whizzing by in a daze.

Saturday, July 9, 2011

Welcome!

Welcome to the new blog by A Family For Every Child. Whether you have been on your adoption journey for years, months, weeks, days, or are just taking the first step, please know that you are welcome here. This blog is meant to be a safe place where you can come and learn more about adoption. On these pages you will find wonderful stories of hope, determination, beautiful memories, hard moments, and real adoption stories that will remind you that no matter how far you have traveled or how much you have left to go, that you are never alone. A Family For Every Child is committed to helping you along your journey- one step at a time.