Foster Mom Adventures

Many of you have contacted me and asked what makes poop green.  I had no idea.  Vegetables?  Boogers?  Hope eats lots of both of those… I viewed this as an educational opportunity and did some handy search on the internet. Surprisingly enough, it is more common than you may think.  There are lots of gross scientific explanations, [...]

When I taught school, we had to have a special meeting every time a special education student had to be disciplined. The purpose of the meeting was to determine if the student’s behavior was a manifestation of his or her disability or if it was simply behavior for which they should be punished in the [...]

First, the court hearing went as expected.  Thank you for all the support and prayers.  The girls’ placement was not changed, but it was an emotionally draining day for Faith and I both.  But enough about that, now on to more important business…the Tooth Fairy visited our home last night.  For those of you who [...]

Thanksgiving is one of the holidays most under-appreciated by children.  They don’t look forward to the big feast in the same way I do or enjoy the fact that it is such a stress-free holiday (at least for me because I certainly never do the cooking!).  They mark it as the mid-point between Halloween and Christmas. Halloween [...]

My foster care agency could use a good dose of bedside manner.  They contacted me late last week after reviewing all my paperwork (in preparation for their upcoming audit by some arm of the State), and demanded two items post haste: the renewal of my homeowner’s insurance policy and a TB test for Hope (since [...]

I learned that lesson this morning: don’t cry over spilled milk (even if you have to mop it up after someone dumped their entire bowl of cookie crisp cereal on the floor).  And fortunately, Hope didn’t cry about that either. However, to quote one the lines from my favorite movie, Steel Magnolias, “she cries at [...]