Quick Update

Just a quick update as my body hates me and disease is trying to win.  (I refuse to let it!)  Over the weekend we had a 15-year-old visit us.  Samson fell in love.  The girls got along great.  I saw all sorts of potential in that big heart and warm smile of hers.  She decided she really liked it here, so she asked to stay.  And so she came back right away on Monday afternoon.  (Worked out great since I was going home from work miserable with this upper-respiratory garbage anyway.)

She will be with us an undetermined amount of time.  She is new to foster care and they are hoping to find family she can stay with.  Meanwhile, she is here.  If things don't work out with any family, she will likely be staying.  She is smart and pretty and hopefully remains motivated.  She also liked my church and I think the youth there would be good for her, so if she is still around, I'll have to make sure she gets to meet some soon.

There is potential for these girls to be good for each other, too.  One might draw the other out and they might inspire each other to be better versions of themselves.  With luck I will get them to eat some of my food...if it isn't too scary.

I had been thinking that if I keep doing foster care it would be nice to have a placement that is young enough to listen to me out of instinct and not so capable of arguing.  But it is also humbling and an honor to have the opportunity to positively impact two bright and beautiful young ladies.  And, a benefit of fostering teens that hadn't occurred to me until last night: they can make their own dinner when you feel like crap.