No turning back now.

[Dunkopf]

Thanks everyone. We did this for years and years and that's how we ended up adopting so many kids so we felt like we needed to stop but we've really missed helping those little ones so we're going back to it again. Getting a lot of flack from the extended family because we're TOO OLD to be fostering babies but we just feel like we need to do this especially now when there are so many little ones needing good foster homes.

You are too old. Just ask my Mom:

 

[lwheelr]

Wow, I envy you. I always wanted to foster or adopt medically fragile or terminally ill kids. See, I lost a baby to a genetic condition, and know that I can survive losing a kid a whole lot easier than they can survive not having a family.

But life has just got in the way of that - and Wyoming isn't a place we could do it anyway, we were too far from medical services.

Now, I'm pregnant instead, so I get to be the gray haired mama whom everyone thinks is the grandma. I sort of HAVE to think that there's no such thing as being too old.

My older sister is heading to Ethiopia in two weeks to go through the court processes on two children (both under the age of 2), whom she should be able to pick up sometime this summer. She's 50 in April, her husband is 57. She says that it is hard, and a hassle, but no other way to give kids a home, so she keeps doing it long past the time when she thought she'd stop. At one time she said, "When my kids have kids, I'm done." She now has three grandkids... And the two kids from Ethiopia will be her 12th and 13th children.

So kudos to you, I'd love to be in your shoes.

 

[farmerlor]

Thanks everyone. We did this for years and years and that's how we ended up adopting so many kids so we felt like we needed to stop but we've really missed helping those little ones so we're going back to it again. Getting a lot of flack from the extended family because we're TOO OLD to be fostering babies but we just feel like we need to do this especially now when there are so many little ones needing good foster homes.

You are too old. Just ask my Mom:

You don't wanna go there old man....

 

[farmerlor]

Wow, I envy you. I always wanted to foster or adopt medically fragile or terminally ill kids. See, I lost a baby to a genetic condition, and know that I can survive losing a kid a whole lot easier than they can survive not having a family.

But life has just got in the way of that - and Wyoming isn't a place we could do it anyway, we were too far from medical services.

Now, I'm pregnant instead, so I get to be the gray haired mama whom everyone thinks is the grandma. I sort of HAVE to think that there's no such thing as being too old.

My older sister is heading to Ethiopia in two weeks to go through the court processes on two children (both under the age of 2), whom she should be able to pick up sometime this summer. She's 50 in April, her husband is 57. She says that it is hard, and a hassle, but no other way to give kids a home, so she keeps doing it long past the time when she thought she'd stop. At one time she said, "When my kids have kids, I'm done." She now has three grandkids... And the two kids from Ethiopia will be her 12th and 13th children.

So kudos to you, I'd love to be in your shoes.

LOL! We already ARE the grey haired people everyone thinks are the grandparents. A couple years ago we were buying Christmas gifts for the youngest kids (toys that were obviously for very young children) and the checkout lady asked Greg if he was getting these for his grandchildren. I was rolling!!! Y'see, she didn't ask ME she asked HIM so it was funny, right? He was pretty bristly about it for a few days though....which kinda made it funnier.

 

[lwheelr]

I think we are just going to give them the clueless look and say, "What do you mean? I'm only 30, we just started having kids!"

Gotta think of a few more replies also, just so we can have some fun with it.

 

[Wifezilla]

she didn't ask ME she asked HIM so it was funny, right? He was pretty bristly about it for a few days though....which kinda made it funnier.

My hubby is still freaking out now that people call him "sir"

 

[abifae]

I was raised in military. EVERYONE is ma'am and sir.

 

[Denim Deb]

I'm waiting for someone to mistake me for my DH's daughter. I only have a couple of strands of gray that you really have to look hard to find. He's almost completely gray.

 

[Homemaker]

Bless you for opening your home to give little ones a place to stay. The world needs more like you.

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

I'm waiting for someone to mistake me for my DH's daughter. I only have a couple of strands of gray that you really have to look hard to find. He's almost completely gray.

At the ripe old age of 25, I was asked if my 15 year old sister was my daughter.
The asker was mortified, and neither of us thought it was all that funny.