Our former homefinder (aka our case worker as foster parents) has now moved to a new position in adoptions. She called me out of the blue to ask if we’d be interested in taking a 16 year old girl who is freed for adoption. I’ve mentioned before that Seth and I originally planned to takeContinue reading “Should We Take a Teenager?!”
Monthly Archives: January 2021
Tiny’s “Singing” Voice
My husband is tearing apart and rebuilding the upstairs bathroom, and the noise of his work is reverberating through the whole house. Tiny thinks that means she needs to sing louder than the drills and saws. Here’s her rendition of an original song.
“How do you cope when they go home?”
That’s a question we get pretty often and it’s a very, very good question. The short answer is that we cry, and we hurt, and we miss kids no matter how long they’re gone. I still miss the first kid we sent home with whom we have no contact – Gronckle. I think about hisContinue reading ““How do you cope when they go home?””
Covid Sucks
I can’t keep writing blog posts without talking about the elephant in the room: Covid-freaking-19. Ugh. It’s presented some unique challenges for us as foster parents and just plain as humans. For starters, it delayed my becoming an Attorney for the Child (AFC). After I resigned from my position as Of Counsel to my oldContinue reading “Covid Sucks”
K-Pop Hostage Situation
Driving with Tiny is like being held hostage by a minuscule K-pop terrorist. Coming home from a medical appointment in Rochester this evening, I got: “P-Pop Mama. P-Pop.” I really don’t like K-Pop so I tried a variety of music on her. Kendrick Lamar? “P-Pop Mama. P-Pop.” Kids favorites like The Wheels on the Bus?Continue reading “K-Pop Hostage Situation”
Work Life Balance as a Foster Parent
It’s 5:30 AM as I’m writing this. People keep asking me how I find the time to blog when I am a foster parent and work, and it is a tricky tricky thing just to foster parent and work full time at the same time, let alone blogging. For 15 years I worked at anContinue reading “Work Life Balance as a Foster Parent”
Foster Care and God
I feel like there are so many foster care blogs that are very religious, and a lot of people do enter foster parenting because they say they are Christian and “felt called by God” to foster or adopt kids. If you read my previous post about why I foster, you know God doesn’t really factorContinue reading “Foster Care and God”
“Are you going to adopt her?”
We get that question allllll the time about our foster kids and my answer is always “I don’t know.” Do we want to adopt? Yes, we’d love to adopt a child or two. But that may never happen and I have to find a way to make peace with that. One of the hardest thingsContinue reading ““Are you going to adopt her?””
Language is Tricky for a Two-Year-Old
One of the joys of parenting age two is observing them get the hang of this crazy language called English. Here are a few of Tiny’s attempts to master English that resulted in unintentional hilarity. I call this one “Homonyms are hard” Tiny holds up the letter U from her alphabet puzzle. Me: “It’s aContinue reading “Language is Tricky for a Two-Year-Old”
Therapy Pets
In addition to being foster parents, Seth and I have a variety of critters. At present we have one dog, four cats, and one kitten (whom we affectionately refer to as Le Shittén because her antics are something else). They all play a role with the kids, particularly the dogs. The current dog Phoebe, akaContinue reading “Therapy Pets”
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