How i almost became the parent of a 15 year old.

In my last post i mentioned the possibility of me becoming a foster parent to a 15 year old girl,
she is a wonderful young lady who desperately needs a stable parent figure and home. i have been working with her for almost a year now as a therapeutic mentor. So when things seemed like they were going south in getting her placed in a foster home i felt compelled to speak up and offer my home.

      Her social worker jumped on it and was very enthusiastic about the possibility, so we talked about possible red flags and anything that might hinder approval and much to my surprise i got the all clear pretty quickly.

      This all happened in a matter of moments and so i left the meeting almost feeling like i was spinning because a mere 30 minutes prior i was a single 26 year old without a care in the world and 30 minutes later i may have just signed up to be a parent to a teenager.

    That is a LOT of change in a very SHORT amount of time. but i knew that if God really put this on my heart than i could handle it. but man was it a scary thought!

the only thing standing in the way was my job. as a therapeutic mentor i wasn't sure if i could legally switch from being a clients mentor to being their foster parent. ( we have a lot of confidentiality clauses to keep both the clients and myself safe.)
  So Friday morning i found myself asking my supervisor if i could, legally, become her foster parent.  sadly the answer to that question was no, and i felt a little tug of sadness at the thought, because i had started to really warm to the idea.   i knew that God had things under control and in the end things ended up working out for her other foster home and hopefully in a few weeks we will be transitioning her from a group home to permanent foster home! which is so very very exciting.

but this was the story of how i ALMOST became a single parent of a teenager.