It has been so long since I have written though not for lack of anything happening.  In fact I have quite a lot I can share about where we are in our journey.  For starters we are officially licensed foster parents.  Woot Woot.  We are in the matching process of this whole journey where our social worker is going through the kids we are interested in and is sending out feelers for those she feels are a good fit for us.  Our first social worker accepted another position and will be leaving us so we are being transferred to someone else.  We met with her this morning to make sure we are all on the same page. Our current social worker has done a wonderful job with keeping her in the loop and at our agency they all seem to work side by side and with each other regardless and get to know each other's families. Because of this we know this is going to go pretty seamlessly. Now the only thing she wants to do a little differently is offer a little more hands on to us in the matching process which we are fine with. (I mean We love getting as much information as we can with all of this). She will update us as we get matches vs getting all the matches then going through them. We are happy with this since it will help us feel more involved. We also found out we are actually approved for 3 children of the same sex(since they have to share a room) if the match is right. While we are not specifically pursuing siblings we are very open to it. Any opportunity we have to keep siblings together would be a blessing to everyone. Time frame wise looks mostly the same...the very earliest we have anyone in home will be between April and June but if we dont find just the right match before then it can go longer. We are not in a rush for this. We would rather things take longer and find the child/children that are meant to be with us then to rush into something. 

So there we are.

The holidays were wonderful time with family and friends but we are also happy they are over.  as much fun as it was the business can wear you down a little bit.  Right now we want to enjoy the journey as our family grows and not feel anxious as we are waiting.  We just feel very at peace with everything overall.