Foster.

You might be a foster mom if...


You might be a foster mom if you have to call and get permission to get your kid's hair cut.


You might be a foster mom if you have more baby's mamas than anyone you have ever ran across.


You might be a foster mom if you asked your hubby right before Christmas "Can I have two little girls for Christmas?"


You might be a foster mom if a week off means no visits.


You might be a foster mom if you have "gut feelings" about other people's kids.


You might be a foster mom if you see kids of all different colors and you think "wow, what a beautiful family."


You might be a foster mom if you are constantly worried if all the medicines and cleaners in your house are lock away properly.


You might be a foster mom if you regularly have to deal with people who make no sense.


You might be a foster mom if you let people walk all over you because you love their kids.


You might be a foster mom if you dream of being in a court room signing adoption papers instead of in a delivery room giving birth.


You might be a foster mom if you thought you would only take certain kinds of "situations" and now you say yes to just about any phone call you get.


You might be a foster mom if you are able to love kids like they are your own within one minute of learning they even exist.


You might be a foster mom if you know all the correct terms like "ICP"  "DHS" and  "GAL"


You might be a foster mom if in your basement you have clothes that would fit any size child, boy or girl.


You might be a foster mom if you own more car seats than will fit in your car.


You might be a foster mom if you are used to retarded people making retarded decisions all the time and you manage to plan ahead for them.


You might be a foster mom if you look at every day as if it might be your last.


You might be a foster mom if you are willing to take on the pain of others so it will hurt these kids just a little less.


You might be a foster mom if the kids that were with you last Christmas weren't with you this Christmas.


You might be a foster mom if you have to refer to the bedrooms in your house by the color on their walls instead of by who does/did sleep in them.


You might be a foster mom if kids that you barely know call you mom....and you love it.


You might be a foster mom if your heart has been broken too many times, and you still say yes to the next call.


You might be a foster mom if you decide to take on a system that is more broken than anything you have ever seen in your life.


You might be a foster mom if you read all this, understand it, and still decide to do it.



Sisters, I am so proud of all of you.  Every single one of you who has spent years doing this, months doing this, or is still working on the paper work and waiting for your first call.  This is not for the faint of heart but it IS for us.  You don't have to be equipped (I wasn't) but you do have to be willing to say yes.

Thank you for saying YES.