A Weird Soul
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. …
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 …
So I love Instant Family. I one reason is I’m more like the couple in the movie where it’s not that we can’t have kids but foster to adopt is how we’re building our family. Just a nontraditional choice. But growing up, I watched several movies that had suttle or overwhelming themes of orphans, foster, …
Today is a Foster Care Soundtrack Saturday. It’s not often you find songs specifically about Foster Care. So either it was a good guess, or Spotify is creeping on me. Either way, I’m glad this wound up in my discovery list a couple weeks ago and I knew it needed a Soundtrack Saturday. See if …
Foster care means we have to be ready for a variety of ages at a moment’s notice. We’re also crazy enough that we’re taking more than one at a time. So part of Foster Kid Prep is having enough on hand that you can function for a day or two while you wait for Amazon …
So we have finished all our classes and turned in our application. We got the call from our caseworker with the agency and have a meeting set up for the Friday after labor day to talk about home study, interviews, and other paperwork. I know we’ll have to have a CPR/first aid class, so I’m …
So this past week for foster care class was the hardest class so far: sexual abuse. It started heavy and went down from there. I think the hardest thing for me in that class was that sexual abuse is more common than asthma and 1 in 4 girls are sexually abused by the time they’re …