June 2022

Could it be? Possibly? Maybe?

I woke up at 2:20 am, wide awake. You know the feeling. Thoughts about random nonsense marched through my brain like ants at my sleep picnic. I eventually got myself up and came downstairs for some guilty pleasure: HGTV. I shared the watching with a house centipede walking around my ceiling above me, keeping meContinue reading “Could it be? Possibly? Maybe?”

Alas! Foster care is unpredictable as can be!

The sweet babe we were expecting to come to us today? Yeaaaaah… not so fast. The judge, rightly so, decided to send her home to her parents instead. The county was planning to recommend she go home by the end of summer anyway, and the parents have been doing everything they need to do, soContinue reading “Alas! Foster care is unpredictable as can be!”

Never Say Never!

I swore we wouldn’t be taking any placements over the summer. Or any more long-term placements at all, in fact. But there are always “circumstances” that make hard rules a challenge. Late last summer we had a sweet, sweet baby placed with us for about a week. She was the cutest, most easy going, goodContinue reading “Never Say Never!”