Archive for Fostering
Mandated Frisbee Throwing In The Park
I got a letter from those people who are designated to oversee foster care in my state.
And I misquote:
All children under the care of (US) who are legally free to be adopted… they define that as kids whose parents rights have been terminated and are not in an adoptive placement…are MANDATED (emphasis mine) to attend [...]
Today Is NOT Tomorrow
Little Miss Sunshine gets to stay home with me on Friday.
One problem.
It’s Thursday and she has no concept of time.
Even AFTER I picked her up from camp she was asking if TODAY was her special day.
No, that’s tomorrow.
Today? This day?
No, tomorrow.
Today is not tomorrow?
That is correct.
Commence the wailing and gnashing and the what not.
In a [...]
We Throw Frisbees? Foster Care is Stupid
We had a visitor this morning. Our agency sent out a foster home specialist. Who’s Miley’s bff? I don’t know, we’ll call her Skipper, isn’t that Barbie’s bff? That’s who they sent.
Where do you keep your knives?
Out of reach.
I’m sorry, they need to be in a drawer.
That seems right.
“Where do you keep your fire extinguisher?”
We [...]
