Our four foster children have been adopted and are in Minnesota. This all happened in March. They were with us 18 months. It was one of our longest placements so far. To remember when they first came to me and to look at where they are today is a complete miracle. I remember clearly the oldest (7 years old) holding a hair brush and looking at it like a foreign object and asking me "what do I do with this?". To when they left me the progress they made with watching them getting ready for school in the morning. Knowing what they do first, second, third and then walking them out to the bus. With this placement it was almost like teaching them at the ages of 2 years old how to brush your teeth, brush your hair, how to get dressed, how much toilet paper you should use -- and yes you do need to use toilet paper, to how much you should eat and gorging yourself is not good for your body....on and on training day in and day out on the simplest of things. Seeing how they get it and now because they have been doing this for so long its a part of who they are and what they do. Its like riding a bike and starting with training wheels and then taking the wheels off and pretty soon your riding that bike with no hands!! What an exciting moment to watch!! They all LOVE Jesus and want to please Him everyday! Our mission (this mission) is complete. Its been a tough road but when it is all said and done -- those four little people are my babies. They will always be in my heart! They are in good hands now and in a home that will love them and for that I am forever thankful! Maybe one day we can make it to Minnesota and visit them!
I am indeed so lucky and blessed to have something that means so much that making saying Goodbye was so hard!! I love you my dear Price children!! You have changed me in to a better person in deed!!
I have posted a couple of posts on my blog before to show their journey. You can go back and read some of my earlier posts to get their story.
