A Weird Soul
November is Adoption Awareness month! President Reagan proclaimed the first National Adoption Week; President Clinton expanded the awareness to the entire month of November. So let’s talk about 7 facts about adoption. 108,000 Kids are waiting to be adopted out of Foster Care: I talked a little on my mamashannan TikTok about what this number means. This …
So I was in the process of posting my foster update yesterday when we got the call that we were picked for kids. So I had to stop everything and start rearranging the house. We got placed with a sib set of 3: a 6-year-old boy, a 4-year-old boy, and a 1-year-old girl. Drop off …
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. …
The trick of blogging about foster care is how quickly things can change. Our first kids came and went the weekend before thanksgiving. Even though we only had the kids for five days, it was as terrible as you would guess. Now my heart is even more with the parents that say goodbye after 2 …
So I think the hardest part of getting ready for kids was preparing the rooms. I think that in part is because we’re taking up to three and have a large developmental age range, in part because we have zero kids right now and are starting from scratch across the board. I wanted to do …
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 …
We’re doing foster to adopt to grow our family. It’s not because we can’t have bio kids, at least not that we know. But it’s something I’ve wanted for at least 5 years, and considering for over 10. I know James 1:28 hit me at just the right moment that it just stuck. Working with …
My husband and I keep saying Kids by Christmas, becasue we think it would be fun to have kids during the holiday and help them make good moments in a bad one. So we had our first meeting with our caseworker. This is the person that does all our interviews and our home study so …