Let's Get a New Kid

    It seemed simple enough and sounded like a good idea, but...how?  Well, we had done foster care before and that was an option.  Recently, however, my two nieces participated in a foreign exchange program and that sounded really interesting, too. So, we did some investigation and learned about both the Rotary International program and AFS.  We ultimately decided to go with AFS.

   The application process was very interesting and thought provoking.  There were plenty of basic questions like: Where will they sleep?  What school will they attend? and Can you feed them 3 meals a day?   But there were also things like: How do I describe our family?  What are the things that we value?  It was difficult to condense into just a few sentences.  We also had to include a few pictures.  Wow!  How do you narrow that down?  What do I want potential kids and their family to see or not see?  

  But, long story short...Apparently it was good enough and AFS approved us as a host family.  In 2 weeks we should be meeting our new Thai son!