Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Our No is Still Our No

We were approved on a Friday, but the worker who would assign us to a caseworker was on vacation for a week.  In the meantime my friend received a call that twins 9 month old were put out on a calling post message.  She called us to see if we were interested.  My husband said no because we had recently decided on only taking one child to ease into this with our existing family.  Plus we wouldn't have enough seats to accommodate in our van.  Honestly, I was disappointed he said no.  Once again, our no needs to be no going in because in the heat of the moment, your heart can deceive you.  Weeks later I found out there were actually 5 children in the sibling group and they ended up not going into care.

A couple days later we received a call regarding twin 3 yr old girls. (I thought twins were rare!) I said "no" due to our agreement of one child.  Truthfully, they later told us there was a 9 year old brother that they would separate if we would take the girls.