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Abracadabra!

To say the past 36 hours have been a whirlwind would be the understatement of the year!  Our licensing worker visited us on Friday for our final walk through, sent our paperwork off yesterday in the morning to the powers that be and POOF two hours later she got word that we're licensed!  It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that there is probably a great enough need related to our licensing specifications for age and quantity that it probably won't take long for us to fill up!
We were already planning to attend a social last night for Foster Parents and really didn't want to back out of that, as 1.) we could use the support and 2.) I had spent the whole day toiling away on some AMAZING cupcakes that I wasn't about to let go to waist. (see what I did there?)
We zipped off to Effingham for the gathering, sat around with many other new foster parents and were VERY grateful for the opportunity to network with others, all the while thinking about everything we needed to get done to prepare for pending kiddos to take over our house!  Needless to say, upon returning home, we went from being 90% moved in to 100% in a matter of about 60 minutes!  Made it through the night without a call, fidgeted and bit my nails all day today until a little after 2:00 when the phone rang!  A group of 4 children needed an immediate home and we're only licensed for 3.  There seemed to be a little entertainment of the idea that they could be split which we were sad about but excited to potentially take a couple of them if that needed to be the case.  It seemed pretty certain that we were going to be taking in a couple of boys this evening so we darted off to WalMart to pick up some necessities but got the call that they found a home that could take all 4 siblings.  How wonderful that they could stay together, how sad for us that we lost the opportunity to open our home to a couple of kids that sounded pretty great!  
We experienced our first "loss" as foster parents!  We, if only for a little bit, grieved the loss of children we hadn't even met.  Imagine how difficult it will be when we DO open our home and eventually have to see them off!  I guess that's all part of the plan and it's a plan we're even more excited to see to fruition than we were this morning!

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