Family bites

And now we are 8.
I can't believe it but here I am; writing my 1st blog!
My hope is that this blog will help keep my sanity, to vent and hopefully share life and help others learn from our experiences.

This October we will celebrate 2 years of having our new children. Thou the adoption was only official this last March they have belonged to our family from the 1st day they came to visit. We really blend in together and I don't see life without them anymore, we adore them!

If you have ever dealt with the foster care system and is frustrated with their lack of speed, organization, funds, people that know what they are doing, good children advocates...I better stop talking about this subject, at least for now.

Our plan was to foster one child or two if she had a sibling which sounded like enough for our than family of five; My husband and I with two daughters (18 and 15 at the time) and a son 11. Now we are 8; a multiracial family, three boys and three girls. The little ones are birth siblings, the oldest, 7 was already "red" marked by the system as a future sex offender and rapist. They had been moved 6 times in less than a year and would now be separated because no one could handle them, they were described to us as having " animal behavior", impossible to control. It would take a long time for me to share all that has happen during this almost 2 years. I will try to little by little to give you some insight into our absolutely crazy, difficult, rewarding life.
I cannot finish this 1st post without mentioning how much I value my husband and my oldest 3 children. It took us many hours of family meetings and discussions until we decided to take in the 3 little ones. I am so proud of my family and their courage to take this step of faith with me. Life has not been the same, at times funnier than a comedy, other times the most difficult job I have ever had.

So here we are, in this journey, pouring ourselves head first, full of expectations for what the future holds. Ah! I forgot to mention that all 3 of our new children have special needs. Each with a long list of problems and difficulties, but among their few personal things we did not find a "manual", as a matter of fact it did not have anything more than a "warning label" with no further information.