Thursday, July 2, 2009

Untitled on purpose!

So...I haven't said much here about all the foster care drama going on at our house.  I don't think I need to go into details about everything, but I'll try to summarize.  Pickles is a good kid.  We've loved having her here but her situation has gotten...more crazy.  Over the line of what we could handle.  We have asked for her to be removed.  I am being blunt and skipping the details for obvious reasons.  So we believe that she will be gone within a little over a week.  We've known for a while that Pumpkin would be leaving, joining a faction of his family.  That is an awesome victory - a young, growing family off to a good start!  But even though we have known for a while, it doesn't make it any easier that he will be gone after this weekend.  All the drama has caused such mixed feelings!  I'm frustrated that it needs to be this way, I'm glad for Pumpkin, sad for us, why do they have to be going at practically the same time???  Part of the reason we got involved in foster care was to help families.  It's beautiful to see families re-built, learning, growing, etc.   But part of the reason was to have a house filled w/kids!  Ok I'm sorry - I didn't start this to complain.  I think my heart is heavy since I know there are other families around us going through some tough times too.  Please pray for us and the other families.  God knows the details.  Pray for the kids, that they will be transition well.  And of course, please pray we get more kids sent our way =)  Thank you...

1 comment:

Joyce said...

We had to ask for a couple of our foster kids to be removed as well. I felt terrible at the time, but realize now that we did the best we could, and there are some situations we are not a place to "fix". I hope you don't beat yourself up too much.