Foster Mom Adventures

I used to love trick-or-treating as a kid.  I have such fond memories of trooping up and down my street and filling up my orange pumpkin bucket.  As an adult, I have loved being the one who answers the door to pass out candy so I can see the parade of children in cute costumes.  [...]

Faith and Hope threw their mother a birthday party yesterday.  Today is her actual birthday.  While it is not her real name, for my purposes, I will call her Grace.  I don’t attend the visits the girls have with Grace, but I was told that Faith and Hope threw her a very nice party with [...]

First, please excuse the delayed announcement (drum roll please)…LADYBUG wins!!  For those of you who were sitting on pins and needles waiting for me to call the election—you could have simply read the comments and done your own counting.  There were no secret ballots in this election.  Ladybug won with 67% of the 9 votes.  [...]

Presidential Election Day may be four weeks away, but today I need to conduct an election of my own and I can’t wait until November.  This is the interactive portion of my blog…if you haven’t ever commented before, here is your big chance. While Faith is very clear about who she will be for Halloween [...]

Faith revealed a while back that she doesn’t trust counselors because her confidence was betrayed by a counselor in the past.  Since that time, I have been trying to find another way for her to form a relationship with an adult she can trust and feel comfortable talking to that she doesn’t see as a [...]

Today I was informed of yet another new requirement that will take effect in October.  Now, not only do I (along with all other foster parents in Texas) get to complete the weekly log of activities, the monthly log of medications administered, the monthly clothing inventory, and all the other doctor and dental updates that [...]