Announcement!

I've got 2 days to catch up on with my 30 blog challenge, I know, but I'll get to it! There has been too many things to get done at Casa Del Johnson! We just got the call yesterday from the Alabama Baptist Children's Home letting us know that we'll be starting our foster care classes on January 23rd and our first home walk through on January 31st! We'll be doing 10 weeks of classes then certifications and hopefully soon after we'll be adding a new munchkin to our family!
There is so much for us to get done in the house! Namely get my office cleaned out and start getting it ready for a child age 0-5. I’ll be selling a lot of stuff and I’ll be throwing away a lot. It needs to be done anyway, we’ll just be doing it express! I was up at 4 this morning making lists of things that needed to get done and things that need to be bought. I’m going to try to do some ‘foster fundraising’ with Olive Photos to try to help with some of the cost. We’ve been very encouraged by friends. Everyone has been so supportive and fabulous! It has really warmed my heart and help some of these butterflies. This is going to be a very big adventure, and I’m so blessed to know that what ever children enter our home are going to have some amazing people to be around! They are going to be some very lucky kids!
I don't want anyone taking this as us no longer trying to biologically have a child. We will still, as we have the last 19 months, do what we thing is best as far as extending our family. I believe there are bigger pictures. Bigger purposes for our lives. I think this is my bigger purpose. I've always said I knew my purpose in life was to be a mother, I just never realized it may not be in the traditional sense. I may be a mother to many. To several who needed a mother where there wouldn't be one otherwise. I'm willing to accept that challenge and be the best at it I can be. I'm looking forward to starting this journey but I'm terrified at the same time. I know this is no easy undertaking. I understand that the children I will encounter will be coming from less than ideal circumstances. I understand that I could pick up a baby from the hospital that has been beaten and burned and abused and I may get a call telling me it's going back to it's parents. But I also understand, that while those children are in my care, in my home, they will be safe. They will be loved, cared for, fed, bathed, and enjoyed and if they have that short time where they can get that, then it will be worth it all to give it to them. I may never wear maternity clothes, but that doesn't mean I will never be a mother.


Mark 9:37 "Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me..."