It has been a whirlwind two weeks. I don't know where I should start....
A little over two weeks ago we were approached by a parent of one of our students. Long story super short, she wanted to give us guardianship of her 14 year old son. At this point, her reasoning doesn't matter. He was not in a good situation and when Thadd and I started dating we agreed that we will always open our home to our students and whatever situations they might be in. God is funny about things you are willing to do. He usually takes your "ideas" of what it will be like and totally throw a little extra in to take you out of your comfort zone. :-)
So needless to say, we now have a 14 year old son named Jordan. For all of you math majors out there, he is 14 years younger than me and yes, that means I would have had him towards the end of my 8th grade year. We have a hearing for permanent guardianship on September 30th. Currently we do have power of attorney over him. Please pray for this transition for both Jordan and us. Pray that his parents do not cause a problem for this to happen (we do not anticipate this happening, but it still doesn't hurt to pray). Elijah already loves him and loves it when Jordan plays with him. They get along great.
I admit, raising a 14 year old is completely different than a 1 year old. There is so much that we have to learn with him that we haven't had the last 14 years to work up to. We went home this weekend to introduce Jordan to family and while at a restaurant I saw a girl that I graduated high school with. She saw Elijah and asked if he was my son and I proceeded to introduce Thadd as my husband and Jordan and Elijah as my sons. I sure did get quite the puzzling look from her. You could see the wheels spinning trying to remember me being pregnant. I laughed.
We know that God has placed Jordan in our lives for a reason. Hopefully he will find comfort and stability in our home. He has accepted Jesus as his personal Lord and Savior. Hopefully he will also grow his relationship with HIM through all of this as well.
