We are on a mission -take our kids to Disneyland!We are a foster-adopt family with ten kids. After three years with nine kids we added another little baby girl to bring our total up to ten!
My husband and I started doing foster care in 2000 when our two birth children were getting ready to get married, and go off to college. Eight years later, we both agree that we went a little crazy. I'm not quite sure how we went from 2 kids to 10?! And, of course, you fall in love with the kids and when it becomes apparent that one will not go back to their birth parents - then you just don't want to give them up! At least, that's our story.
We adopted our Ali first. She came to us at 16 months of age, and now she is 8 years old. We also have a sibling set of three sisters that we adopted over two years ago. They are 11, 12 and 15 now. Then, there's our other trio - one girl and two boys. Their ages are (girl-8),(boy-5), and (boy-3). We are their adoptive placement and hope to finalize their adoption soon. And lastly, our littlest angel who we got at nine months. For now, she's just here for awhile for us to love and nurture until children's services determines the permanent plan for her.
I just wanted to give you a little background so you could mentally picture our family. We have been greatly blessed and feel lucky to have been here for these kids. As you can probably imagine, our house is busy and NOISY - but never boring. We have had a high stress year or two because of my husband's cancer diagnosis and the results of dealing with that. The Lord is blessing us in that situation right now and he is stable and healthy.
Our kids have a dream that we desperately want to fulfill for them - to go to Disneyland. I know that most kids want to go to Disneyland. But our kids have just had to go through so much already in their young lives. Like many kids from the foster care system, they have been abused/and or neglected. Our three oldest lived in 7 different foster homes over a period of four years while waiting for their case to get settled legally and then to get adopted. We are really hoping to make one grand trip to Disneyland and give them memories that will last a lifetime.
If you are interested in donating to our "Dream Vacation" fund, we would be grateful. I am adding a chart to show our progress in getting our funds for our trip. Thanks and God bless you!
We are on a mission -take our kids to Disneyland!We are a foster-adopt family with ten kids. After three years with nine kids we added another little baby girl to bring our total up to ten!
My husband and I started doing foster care in 2000 when our two birth children were getting ready to get married, and go off to college. Eight years later, we both agree that we went a little crazy. I'm not quite sure how we went from 2 kids to 10?! And, of course, you fall in love with the kids and when it becomes apparent that one will not go back to their birth parents - then you just don't want to give them up! At least, that's our story.
We adopted our Ali first. She came to us at 16 months of age, and now she is 8 years old. We also have a sibling set of three sisters that we adopted over two years ago. They are 11, 12 and 15 now. Then, there's our other trio - one girl and two boys. Their ages are (girl-8),(boy-5), and (boy-3). We are their adoptive placement and hope to finalize their adoption soon. And lastly, our littlest angel who we got at nine months. For now, she's just here for awhile for us to love and nurture until children's services determines the permanent plan for her.
I just wanted to give you a little background so you could mentally picture our family. We have been greatly blessed and feel lucky to have been here for these kids. As you can probably imagine, our house is busy and NOISY - but never boring. We have had a high stress year or two because of my husband's cancer diagnosis and the results of dealing with that. The Lord is blessing us in that situation right now and he is stable and healthy.
Our kids have a dream that we desperately want to fulfill for them - to go to Disneyland. I know that most kids want to go to Disneyland. But our kids have just had to go through so much already in their young lives. Like many kids from the foster care system, they have been abused/and or neglected. Our three oldest lived in 7 different foster homes over a period of four years while waiting for their case to get settled legally and then to get adopted. We are really hoping to make one grand trip to Disneyland and give them memories that will last a lifetime.
If you are interested in donating to our "Dream Vacation" fund, we would be grateful. I am adding a chart to show our progress in getting our funds for our trip. Thanks and God bless you!