A Special Guest!

Yesterday Ben and I were able to have a conference call with a couple social workers, an education advocate and a therapist for the little boy that I wrote about in the last post. During the call we were able to ask a few questions that we had come up with (nothing really important, just clarifying some things that we had read in the files that we were given) and get to hear a little from his "team" of workers. There were no surprises during the call, everything still seems very good and overall we are quite impressed with this boy's ability to adapt so readily to all of the turmoil that he has been through. That's not to say that things sound perfect, but honestly, they sound a lot better than we had hoped for!

Today (while out on the lake fishing!) I got a call from his social worker saying that they would love if he could come stay with us on Friday and Saturday night! YAY! We are so excited to meet this child and see how he interacts with Hunter and with Ben and I. The way that it works is that he will be told he is coming to stay with us for respite care, not that we are a potential family. This makes perfect sense because it eliminates any pressure for any of us. He won't feel any pressure to "perform" in any way, and we won't feel as much pressure to make him fit into our family if it just isn't a good fit. We are also telling Hunter that there will be a friend visiting for the weekend, but we are being very careful to keep him from overhearing too much so it's been difficult to really even talk to family or anyone about any of this! I don't want Hunter to be heartbroken if things don't work out or if the social workers decide that another family will be a better fit so it's just easier to keep him in the dark for right now.

Please be praying for us this weekend! We don't yet have details about pick up or drop off times, places, etc. so we have no idea what to expect. The weather is also looking pretty crummy so we are hoping that we can find a few fun things to do together despite the rain! I have to admit that I'm a little nervous... I don't know much about 9 year old boys!!! I can't wait to meet him and see what he's like!

Thanks for sticking with us so far! Can't wait to see where we are headed!

Love,

B, E & H

P.S. We still haven't gotten Ben's orders so we are just waiting patiently to see what will come of that... so frustrating knowing that he is supposed to be leaving sometime soon, but not knowing when!