Tonight Kristin and I are going to our monthly Waiting Families Group (WFG) meeting.  WFG is like a free-form support group for couples/families enduring the waiting portion of the adoption process.  We’re a little different from most of the other families because we’re waiting to be licensed as foster parents.  In other words – we will probably see a number of children come and go before we have the opportunity to adopt one of them.

While our aim is to adopt, we’ve decided on a road that projects less certainty.  We will get to see, hear, touch, smell, and probably taste multiple children before one stays forever.  Before one adopts our name.

I’m excited to be a foster dad.  I haven’t been until now.  I mean – I’ve been on board, but I haven’t had the butterflies. Like coming to the end of the line for a rollercoaster, I’m gazing out at the climbs and drops – the loops and dark tunnels.  I know they are all going to be part of the ride.  I also know, having ridden a coaster or two, that I will not see them coming from the tracks.

So, incase you are wondering where we  are in the whole process – we’re at the front of the line.  Just waiting for our car to pull in.