We are foster/adopting

I was a single parent for a long time I had given up on marriage and knew about God but didn't know God. So with that being said I lived a very wordly life. I met my husband in 2000 when I started working for the same company he worked for. In 2002 we starting dating and in 2003 we married. I had told him about the cancer and advised him I couldn't give him any children he was ok with that. He didn't even want to adopt, one because adoption is so expensive and second because of all the stories he has heard. When we both got saved I mentioned adoption he said no way, then we thought about seregancy but met with our Pastors first. After speaking with the Pastors alot of things we didn't think about came to light especially the fact that the woman that carries our child might just change her mind. So we left it alone and I prayed on it. Then we had a couple join our church and they had 3 children that they had adopted I remember them saying that people would ask them are they your children and the husband would say "Yea, can't you tell" oh, how funny was that (they really don't look alike at all) but I loved that and they really love their kids. So every now and again I would tell my husband but look at our bother and sister in Christ they adopted and look how happy they are they couldn't love those kids more than if they were biologically theirs. So again I left it alone and Prayed and guess what............whoever says God doesn't answer prayers...........needs a serious wake up call, because God answered my prayer. About a month ago I visted my friend's blog (she is the one I mentioned earlier) and there was an advertising for All God's Children so I checked it out, I requested information to be sent to the house. The info got there and my husband called me and said Ma, you got a book in the mail from All God's Children what is it about and I told him "they were an international adoption agency and they don't seem to be really expensive, we might be able to dig into our retirement fund for this" so he said check it out............wow I couldn't believe it. So we spread the news to our family (church and biological) and we were told about foster/adopt through DYFS which is what our Sister and brother did. I asked my husband how he felt about that and of course at first he said no but then God put it in his heart and he said let's do it.

So now here we are in the process of foster/adopting. We started our classes (to be certified foster/adoptive parents) on April 9th we end April 25th. We have already done the fingerprinting and home study. I believe after the classes there will be another home study and then I have no idea after that. We are really excited I never thought we would be this excited it's like having a baby, without the pain (for real and I speak through experience I have had 2 children naturally, the other 2 are spiritual daughters). We know being foster parents isn't going to be easy but you know something God is in control and he will not give us more than we can handle.

Well, that is all for now, I just wanted you all to be brought up to date with my beautiful experience.