Don’t let the title of this post fool you. I LOVE shopping for baby supplies! Absolutely love it! But for someone who likes to do research before making a decision on a product, creating a baby registry can drive you crazy. There’s so many products out there and for every product that someone loves, someone else will tell you it’s the worst product ever. Let’s just say you can easily get a little (or a lot) obsessive and frustrated over the research. 🙂 So, to keep my sanity, I have convinced myself that my registry is officially done. No more research, no more changes.
When you are fostering, it’s not quite as easy to shop as when you are pregnant or adopting. At any given moment, I could find out I have a tiny newborn coming or a rambunctious toddler. And I’m not going to know days or weeks in advance that they are coming. I’ll be lucky to get a few hours advanced notice. So, I need to have way more supplies on hand than a typical mom would have. Nothing about foster parenting is “easy”. But so worth it!
So, I’m working on selling furniture (anyone want a hutch or a bookcase?), continuing to figure out other items that I can part with and creating as much space as I can for all of the nursery furniture and baby gear that will soon fill my home. Just thinking about that puts a huge smile on my face. There are certain parts of this process that I have just been looking forward to and dreaming about for such a long time. One of those is the day I walk into what is currently my guest bedroom and see a nursery instead. It already makes me happy just seeing the baby supplies starting to piling up in there. I just can’t wait to have furniture and decorations in there to make it an actual nursery. It really will be a dream come true!
Foster parenting, especially as a single mom. is going to teach me many skills. And I know one of those skills is to be comfortable with asking for, and accepting, help. So, I’m working on that skill already. I was telling a friend recently that it makes me uncomfortable sharing my registry when people ask about it. I’m the one who made the choice to foster. I should be responsible for buying what I need to care for these children. I’m used to be very independent. However, you can’t be independent as a foster parent. Your entire role is to work with a team of people to raise this child. So, I shouldn’t feel guilty about letting friends and family buy items for the nursery when they genuinely want to do it, right?
So for all of you who have asked…here is my registry: http://babyli.st/burdette
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