Announcement Advice Needed

[delenire]

So we are in the last stages of the home study and our Certifier hopes to have us certified at the end of the month. She said everything is looking good. I am excited, in disbelief, and kind of freaked out. We sent out a letter to our family and friends that we are close to in May to let them know we are planning on adopting but we didn't mention fostering. After our first home visit we were encouraged to foster and we accepted.

Here is the thing, I really wanted to try to do the fun things you get to do when you welcome a little one home (either by Pregnancy or by being Paper Pregnant.) My girlfriend wanted to host a shower of sorts but we were going to design in around older children not a baby and I really wanted to do a photo announcement. I can live without a shower, but the announcement is super important to me.

Does anyone have any ideas how to even do that if we are planning to foster first? Your suggestions are welcome and appreciated!

[nobb14]

There are super cute ideas on pinterest, although not nearly as many as traditional pregnancy announcements! We were pretty boring with ours- when we announced our adoption plan I posted a picture of a framed etsy print of bob Dylan lyrics (forever young) and when we got matched I did the eviction-type announcement of my cat in a basket in the nursery, saying we have X amount of weeks to tell her the basket isn't meant for her. Have fun with it! Make it personal! Everyone will be so excited for you no matter what you do. Congrats!

[ceejay]

Congrats on being almost licensed!

MH and I are similar in that we hope to adopt but are doing foster care first. We may get to adopt our current foster children or they may go back to their bio parents. But since we aren't sure if we will ever have biological children, we also didn't want to miss out on the excitement and fun of "announcing" to family and friends that we were licensed foster parents.

We waited to announce (on facebook) until after we received our license. It was difficult to find cute ideas for announcing foster care as most pinterest announcement ideas were more geared towards adoption. We ended up posting this image (below) and said that we are excited to announce that we are licensed foster parents and we look forward to caring for children that come into our home, whether it be for a few months, a few years, or forever. That way it was a bit more clear that we may be able to adopt but might be foster only.

Hope that helps! Let us know what you decide to do.

[shemarie82]

This is what we did for our Facebook announcement. If this works out, then we will not be TTC, so I wanted to get to do an announcement.

Once we were actually licenses I posted this.

[shemarie82]

I think that if someone wants to have a shower, soak up the love! Enjoy it all!

[delenire]

You guys these ideas are so awesome! We have our last home visit tonight and then she gets to write up the study for approval. We want to get excited but we are trying to be reserved in case something falls through. But this far along you would think it would have fallen through by now if there was something wrong...

My mind is racing a mile a minute!