So what ultimately led you to, to pursue getting a foster care license, and what was that process like?

So we, um, kind of had been talking about it, throwing it around for a few years, and I don't even know how, if something from the county came around that, you know, listing or they were looking for more foster parents, and we had discussed it and kind of thought that was something that we would give a try for it.

Um, we both felt that we had so much more energy and life to give than, um, what we were doing just sitting at home with no kids at home.

Um, so we-

So how long, how long have you two been licensed, and then maybe how many foster children have you had in your home through placement or respite?

So we've been licensed for five years, and we've had seven kids placed with us.

Um, most of them be- or they all began with, um, being placed in our house, or a few of them were, um, emergency, um, visits that they, when they came into the system, they came to our place for a night or a week until they could find a family member to, um, care for them.

The respite, we are still, we still kind of do respite for one of our kids that we have, um, and that's going on a couple years now.