About Us

Nothing much to report on the kids today... so I figured this is a good time to fill some people in on our lives and who we are.

I'm 33.  The Wife is 30.  We live in the Midwest and both work full time jobs.  Her in insurance and me in computers.  We've been married for almost 2 years, but known each other for more like 9 or 10.  A lot of people ask the obvious question of... "what made you want to do foster care?"... and we give varying answers.  There really isn't one thing that made us want to do it.  The Wife's brother and sister-in-law started their classes at the end of the summer in 2010 and had a placement before Thanksgiving.  We heard their stories and it just got us really excited to be able to help out some kids in need.  So we signed up for MAPP classes and started preparing for the kids that would surely be coming our way.  It's a sad thing when kids are taken from their parents and placed in another home, but, as foster parents, it's our job to make sure that they have a place to go where they know they will be safe and someone will take care of them.  We have both worked with kids at different times in our lives and really enjoyed the work.  The Wife was a nanny for a while, as well as worked at a couple of different before and after school programs.  I went to school (briefly) for elementary education and I also worked at a preschool for a while.

When we filled out our paperwork for the agency, we listed that we would be willing to take children, boys or girls, from birth to eight years old (The Kid just turned 9 and we want her to stay the oldest).  We did rule out taking kids with any major medical issues, just because we are not in a position to be able to take them to the necessary doctors appointments and such.  If we were ever in that position, we would definitely change our criteria.

We were so excited to get our first call and then we did.  For a three month old baby.  We had a toddler bed and a regular bed, along with everything else, including clothes up to size 8, except a crib.  We unfortunately had to say no to the first call, but less than two weeks later we got the first call that we were able to say yes to.  It's been a great experience so far, better than most from what we've heard, and we hope it continues to be everything we hoped it could be.

We don't know where this fostering life will take us, we do know that we're excited to be doing it together.  It could be adopting, it could be fostering a lot of kids over a few years... who really knows... we just know that we're here to help.