Blessed

Wednesday night we welcomed an adorable baby boy into our home! We don't know how long he will be here, but we do know it will be long-term foster (so, probably 6 -12 months at least). Everyone is enjoying him! I have lots of help from all three kids. Cara is especially helpful and is actually very good at taking care of him.

It is an amazing/overwhelming in a good way feeling to provide a precious little life a safe place. We just want to shower him with love and give him a good start no matter how long he is here.

For those who have asked or wanted to ask the question, "Aren't you afraid to get attached and have to give him back," our answer would be a great big, "of course." I almost wanted to hand him back to the social worker last night because I knew how quickly we would love him and that we would get attached, then I remembered all the reasons we decided to do this and I knew that for now, this is the right thing to do, so we will. We will love him, we will rock him, we will play with him, we will do everything with him that we have done for our kids. He will be a part of this family for however long we get to have him.

I don't think I can put pictures of him on the blog, but boy is he adorable!