I've been told for a lot of years now that one of these days I'm going to get tired and burned out. I have simply laughed. "You don't know me!" I've responded, "I'm never tired!" Time has gone on and the years have passed.... I have moved into a different phase of life. Adding a bigger job to the plate, more community events, boards and committees along with adding the most important hat to the large collection I now wear: the mom hat. When we first went through the foster parenting classes people told us "get ready, your lives are about to change" - which we found really annoying. Obviously, we knew our lives were about to change. We were ready to a change we assured everyone. Yes, we know we can't drop everything and head out of town for the weekend anymore or go out to an expensive dinner on a whim mid-week - we knew what we were giving up and were completely fine with it. The trade-off is more than worth it. For the first ...