My wife and I are retired seniors, 67yo. We have a fine 50yo rancher with 3 bedrooms 2 1/2 baths on an acre of ground. Our 28 yo grandson lives in the basement, his life was turned upside down by the pandemic and he has yet to regain his footing. So much for the background. I've spent the last ~18 months getting the house back in order, new patio deck, new kitchen, fixed up the spare two bedrooms our boys grew up in and it was at this point I realized those empty bedrooms could go to better use so I decided to apply to the county to make ourselves a resource parent for fostering. I'm excited about this but my wife (who is a semi-invalid) is not. Grandson who will have no involvement has, for unknown reasons, been trying to torpedo this application. I plan to turn in all the completed paperwork tomorrow, all the fingerprinting and initial documents are done. I'd love to have kids running around again because we only get to see our grandkids perhaps once a month, at my urging. I'm admittedly somewhat lonely here even though there are three residents but little interaction. Am I doing this for selfish reasons? While my wife and grandson are going to be checked out (don't expect any problem there) neither will be actively foster parenting. Any advice? I have time, energy, resources and money and love to give. We had boys and our boys had boys so I'd really like to have the opportunity to see what caring for girls would be like.