Orphelia and her husband are only part way through the foster care course and a couple of amazing things happened. First they were chosen by another birth mom to adopt a baby- and they turned it down! This is major, but they now felt comfortable and lead to do foster care and adopt through that, so they saw that a better plan was out there for them. Then a coworker found out about a little boy who was about to be taken into CPS care unless someone volunteered to foster him. So Orphelia and her husband just took in this little 16 month boy. They will have him for 4 months while the mother does classes and depending on how that goes, he may be return to his birth mom or be up for adoption.
It has been an amazing about face, but healing in a lot of ways to be able to say farewell to the dream they thought they were grasping hold of and allowing the CEO to move in their hearts and have them open their home to this little boy in need- for now or possibly for the rest of their lives. The end of this saga remains to be seen, but for now there are the joys, laughter, fullness, tears, struggles and victories of parenting in this couple's lives.
I haven't met the little guy yet, but will get to this weekend. Thank you Lover for a wondrous valentine's day gift of love!
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