We are back in the game!!! again!!! Yes, we have decided if are going to have kids, lets make sure we have an army. Well, maybe not an army, but enough to make us a festive family. What that magic number is we don't really know. It could be 3, 4 or maybe more. hahah That is the exciting part of waiting on God. We will see what He has for us.
We have completed our 3rd homestudy!!! We now are just waiting on the county for the final approval to receive our license to foster/adopt. So at this point, all we do is wait! This is going to be a little (or a lot) different for us this time around because we decided to go the foster/adopt route. We have loved the Adoption Center of San Diego and we have been really blessed by Sarah the Director. We have just been directed in a different path this time. Although we are choosing to adopt through the county we going through Koinonia Family Services. They are an agency that helps out our county offices with placing the excessive amount of children in our foster care system. We are loving working with Koinonia and their staff! They have been amazing and are so helpful to us. In fact, they make it enjoyable to attend all the trainings and make the homestudies so comfortable. We are feeling really blessed that God directed us to them. In fact, when we were praying about which direction to go, within a couple of weeks, Koinonia came up 5 different times from random friends!!! God was really clear!
Our foster care system is unpredictable and uncertain, so we are really trusting God at this point. I will be honest, our system is one of the scariest things to me. But our hope is not in our system! We are trusting that God already knows exactly who are children are and the battles we are going to endure on their behalf. May His will be done!
You're an awesome mom..so an army is right up your sleeve! So excited to see what God's plan is for you and your family!
ReplyDeleteLet go, let God is all we can do.....best of luck...it is a wonderful thing you are doing......God Bless you!
ReplyDeleteYou are such an inspiration Ashlynn! Can't wait to see how God uses you and Dave. My husband feels very strongly about adopting and we pray that it could be in our future. Love reading your blog! <3
ReplyDeleteThank you friends for your sweet words! Dave and I feel so blessed to have friends that are encouraging us in this journey. We know it may seem odd to some, but we also know this is exactly where God wants us to be. I'll keep you posted.
ReplyDeleteamazing! love the family update.
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