Foster Mom Adventures

I have been overwhelmed by the outpouring of love and support from every one of you after hearing the news about my girls.  Several of you have sent pieces of advice, which I have already put to good use.  And one of those pieces of advice was in response to my entry on March 27, [...]

So many of you have asked for one—so here is the first picture I snapped of Hope and Faith.  They are ready for bed in their new pajamas.  Hope is sporting her favorite—Dora the Explorer and Faith is wearing pajamas depicting The Naked Brothers Band.  Before today I had only heard of the Jonas Brothers.  [...]

My day started like any other day.  I was of course running late.  I went to work, did my thing; it was a normal day.  And then this afternoon I got a phone call.  It was a call that completely changed my life—in the blink of an eye. I received a call for an emergency [...]

It’s been a nightmare day of travel.  It isn’t supposed to take 12 hours to travel from Washington, DC to Austin, Texas, but somehow it has.  Not only did both of my flights get cancelled, but to add insult to injury, the entire airline’s computer system went down for 45 minutes at the same time.  [...]

So I’m not the best with the rapid updates…and that’s before I become an instant parent!  I need to be a better blogger, because I actually have a little news.  I have now received three phone calls from my new agency with possible placements.  First, I received a call for two kiddos, but I was [...]

For an entire week now I have been thinking about one of the questions I was asked during my home study last week: “How long have you wanted to be a foster parent?”  At first I went blank.  Then, I told her I had been seriously looking at foster parenting in terms of attending the [...]

That’s something I learned yesterday in training.  Foster children are like presents because you don’t know what you’re going to get until you unwrap it.  Some presents are better than you could have ever imagined, some presents are exactly what you expect them to be, and some presents bring some unforeseen challenges.  I would say [...]

My home study that was originally scheduled for February 21 was postponed by a week and actually took place on February 28.  So that means I had to clean my house AGAIN.   By the time Thursday night rolled around, I was pretty nervous.  Though I had gone through a home study before with my previous [...]