Lately as I’ve been picking up my house from tornado whirlwinds of kid chaos, I noticed both the kids have been carting around their Life Books and looking through them a bunch. What’s a Life Book? And why make one? Everyone is curious about their origin, their early years, their “story” as it were. ButContinue reading “Life Books”
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It’s never uncomplicated in foster care
It’s a slightly quieter house now in that baby Cookie has gone home to live with his relative. She’s over the moon to have him, and he’s a content little guy with all the holding and doting that’s going on. So it’s a happy ending in my book! It almost didn’t happen, because the relativeContinue reading “It’s never uncomplicated in foster care”
Christmas tidings!
Christmas is always a strange holiday for foster families. Depending on where kids are on their reunification journeys, often our kids have had visits with first families on Christmas, which we’ve always encouraged and facilitated. This year that’s not the case as Sprout’s family doesn’t celebrate Christmas in any significant way (they’re Muslim), and they’reContinue reading “Christmas tidings!”
Recertification as a Foster Home
Every two years we have to be re-certified by the County that holds our foster care license. The process is fairly simple. First, we have to do physicals. There’s a form our doctors have to complete that basically confirms we are healthy enough to be foster parents and are up to date generally. Second, sinceContinue reading “Recertification as a Foster Home”
Gloriously Unemployed
I’ve written a little bit about my work history previously here. If you don’t feel like reading the old post, in short, my work story is as follows: I went to Cornell Law School, and went straight to a law firm of roughly 65 attorneys where I worked for 15 years practicing environmental and zoningContinue reading “Gloriously Unemployed”
A Yucky Post to Write
We have notified the County that we need to have them move Little Dude if they can find another place for him. I’m feeling… well, terrible about it. I’m also vastly relieved at the idea, which is probably pretty telling. I wrote a while back about having a hard time bonding with Little Dude Man,Continue reading “A Yucky Post to Write”
Kids and Cats Galore
If you hadn’t realized this already, we are crazy cat people. Like for real. We never set out to be, it just… happened. When I met Seth he had one awesome cat. And when he died we took in a stray kitten that the neighborhood kids found in a dumpster and brought to us. ItContinue reading “Kids and Cats Galore”
A day in the life of a foster parent
5:30 am, Tiny toddles into our bedroom and asks for a hug. Seth and I peel our eyes open. 6:00 am, Dude man starts fussing in his crib. Baths, getting kids dressed, breakfast follow. 7:30 am, Seth takes the kids to daycare. Forgets Tiny’s glasses and mask. 8:30 am, our amazing daycare provider calls toContinue reading “A day in the life of a foster parent”
Baby, Take 2
I got the call from the head of the Homefinding unit on Friday at 11:20 am. Could we take two babies?? One 4 weeks old and the other just about to turn 1. I called Seth who was working but thankfully between c-sections at that moment and he picked up. I begged for both. HeContinue reading “Baby, Take 2”
And then she was gone
Sweet babykins spent a week with us. On Tuesday I called the triage caseworker to ask about forms for daycare (a triage worker is someone who helps with initial placement of kids until a more permanent caseworker can get assigned). Before I could ask my question, she let me know that baby had a relativeContinue reading “And then she was gone”
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