A Weird Soul
So I’m working on being more productive and learning new things, which to me also means I can be more present in each moment with the people I’m with or the task I need to accomplish. This month my husband and I decided to start rotating through spending one on one time with the kids. …
So if you’re new here, you’re probably wondering what this blog is about. Good question. Sometimes I didn’t even know. It’s gone through a lot of renditions and focuses over the year, mostly because every time my life shifts, what I focus on shifts too, and for that matter what I have time for changes. …
It’s nothing fancy. It’s barely a book as I would consider it. It’s a 7-day devotional, but it’s published. I needed to cross that threshold of waiting to publish something when it’s done and perfect and just doing it. It probably has mistakes. And my sister will definitely let me know if it does, but …
So I was in the process of posting my foster update yesterday when we got the call that we were picked for kids. So I had to stop everything and start rearranging the house. We got placed with a sib set of 3: a 6-year-old boy, a 4-year-old boy, and a 1-year-old girl. Drop off …
So we’re still trying to finalize the details of the last placement, so that’s slowing down our house being back on the list in one of the main counties our agency gets referrals from. We are getting calls from other counties, but either the situation hasn’t been a good fit or we haven’t been picked. …
The trick of blogging about foster care is how quickly things can change. Our first kids came and went the weekend before thanksgiving. Even though we only had the kids for five days, it was as terrible as you would guess. Now my heart is even more with the parents that say goodbye after 2 …
So I think the hardest part of getting ready for kids was preparing the rooms. I think that in part is because we’re taking up to three and have a large developmental age range, in part because we have zero kids right now and are starting from scratch across the board. I wanted to do …
We are in the waiting. We passed all our home study and Saturday we took our policy and procedures class. Because we are open to sibling sets of two or three, it’s likely we’ll get kids quick, but we joke that we probably won’t get any till I’m out of town at my conference in …
It’s Thanksgiving season and I thought it would a good idea to share a free Printable Thankful Card. It’s an easy download and print option that comes with a PDF with 2 quarter-page cards, as well as a 5×7 and 6×8 JPG. This card will make it easy to send grateful vibes to the people …
Every year I try to do the thankful list for the month of November. Sometimes I’m just finishing it in one day because I just struggle to remember it every day. But really it’s the practice of sitting down and remembering what you’re thankful for. This year I’m trying to focus on why I’m thankful. …