Generally speaking, we’ve had good relationships with the parents of the kids in our care, or at least with the Moms who are doing the hard work to get their kids back. Dads have been hit or miss but the ones who have been engaged in services and visits we’ve had a good working relationshipContinue reading “Relationships with Parents of our kids”
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Misalignment
One of the biggest challenges Seth and I have with fostering is that we are not always on the same page. We are always great teammates when it comes to fostering the kids who are in our care. But where we disagree is regarding what – or who – will come next. I want allContinue reading “Misalignment”
That Sweet Baby Smell
The day after I wrote about longing for a third kid to be placed with us? We got the call we could say yes to! Was it for a child within our age range? Not even a little bit. Was it a kid with medical issues? Nope – thankfully she’s healthy. Did we say yesContinue reading “That Sweet Baby Smell”
Moving On
Miss Kicks is still AWOL and the police are still looking for her, much to her dismay. Until yesterday we had ongoing contact with her on Messenger, but her messages have been getting increasingly nasty and antagonistic. She’s not giving away where she is, and all that was coming out of the continued connection wasContinue reading “Moving On”
The World Came Tumbling Down
Sometimes things go as planned in foster care. Once in a great while, something that has been expected comes to pass. Most of the time though, things will be trucking along looking like they’re headed one way, then everything goes pear shaped. As it did with us and Miss Kicks. She started going AWOL inContinue reading “The World Came Tumbling Down”
Struggles
So many things have been happening, but most of them involve our teenager Miss Kicks, and I want to protect her privacy so I can’t really write about any incidents in particular. Suffice it to say, being a foster parent to a 16-year-old who has experienced a tremendous amount of trauma in her life isContinue reading “Struggles”
An interview of my partner in crime
I decided to follow the lead of my dear friend Emily whose awesome blog involves interviewing people. I’ll never get my husband to do his own guest post, so I decided to interview him. Here he is in all his glory, the man, the myth, the legend: Seth. H: I think I know the answerContinue reading “An interview of my partner in crime”
Big Family Chaos
My house is ludicrously chaotic. In fact, when we are trying to get all the troops out the door, Seth always irritably shouts “Come on, Team Chaos! Let’s go!” And when we arrive somewhere he says “Team Chaos is here!” Kiddo and Miss Kicks have no volume control. Both are often at Max Volume atContinue reading “Big Family Chaos”
Parenting while perpetually exhausted
I’ve been talking solely about the kids in this blog, but one of the things that affects them is me, and my health. So I’m going to talk about that today. I don’t think my story is unique. In fact I know it’s not. For a lot of women in particular, we struggle with chronicContinue reading “Parenting while perpetually exhausted”
Post Visit Fallout
I haven’t written a whole lot about visits and what happens during them or after them and it’s an important part of being a foster parent. Kids in foster care still have visits with their families. Those visits can look a lot of different ways. For some families they’re supervised at the Department of ChildrenContinue reading “Post Visit Fallout”
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