Red, Sweet & Wild

To promote adoption from foster care, Lansdowne's Epiphany House is hosting a showing of the Heart Gallery of Philadelphia on April 24th at the Plymonth Meeting Mall. The Heart Gallery offers portraits of waiting children looking for forever families.



Thursday, May 22, 2008

So much has happened, so little has happened

Good news, bad news! Good news! We found out that the little boy from an abusive family we so desperately wanted to foster to adopt is being reunified with his family. Bad news! That really is the good news! More bad news, our agency says that DHS is not longer removing young children from neglectful homes so our agency has not gotten a placement of a child under five since January. They are pushing us towards domestic adoption, which is a great option even though it costs 1/4 of our annual income before the legal fees.
I have been reviewing the adoption photolisting of waiting children in other states. The NJ Department of Human Services told us to come back in 6 years when our kid is 9 and we can adopt an older child. (More good news!) I have contacted another agency, which works with counties outside of Philadelphia. So maybe we may have to switch. Maybe we will have a better chance to foster to adopt during the summer. The only thing I am sure of is that I am very, very sad. It was all I could do to keep from crying when I was talking to the new agency.

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

The waiting continues

I have started reading my Son Q stories about being a big brother a few months ago. I read him thse books off and on. Lately he has been requesting the big brother book. I know this is just a ploy from Q to lengthen his bedtime routine and if I would read the Altoona Yellow Pages Q would be down with that too.
Still as I read Q the sing-song verses of the big brother book a part of me hopes that a part of him is warming to the idea of having a sibling.