On deciding not to do foster care

“Never half-ass two things. Whole ass one thing.” -Ron Swanson In high school, and a number of times since then, my mom has accused me of burning the candle at both ends. I thought of her when I heard the the above quote on a recent re-watch of an old episode of Parks and […]

Dinosaurs and bubble gum and Steve Holt!

We had another foster care placement this week, this time including a four-year-old boy. Here are some new lessons learned: 1. I have the same taste in toys as four-year-old boys. I had been worried about the toys I’d acquired for foster kids since none of the previous foster kids stayed interested in our play […]

Things I learned (and one enduring mystery)

Todd and I provided respite care for two little ones last week. We had them for five days, by far the longest placement in our short foster care history, which meant more time to learn valuable lessons. 1. Nap time is sacred. And it’s painful for everyone when a case worker asks you to forego nap […]

Another Foster Care Placement

We had another foster care placement this past weekend, this time with one seven-year-old boy. Here’s what I learned: I don’t understand ADHD. This little boy has been diagnosed with ADHD which, at least this past weekend, meant that he wanted to try every game/toy in our house for about a minute before moving on […]

A little more perspective

It’s been a couple of weeks since our first (and so far, only) foster care placement so I thought I’d share some more feelings/observations now that I’m a little removed from that weekend. Observation #1: Foster care is a lot like you expect it to be. It’s hard, it’s tiring (so tiring), it’s worthwhile. This […]

Placement #1

My dad asked if I would blog about our first foster care placement, and I said I didn’t know if I would because I didn’t know what to say. Todd said I should blog about it just to tell people we successfully did it. So, people, we successfully did it. We fostered two kids this […]

We did it

Todd and I became licensed foster parents today. He stayed home this morning to meet with the person from the KDHE, and when he called me after she’d left our house I expected him to say we hadn’t passed the inspection and we had more work to do. But he didn’t say that, he said […]

It’s difficult to come up with a title for a post about nothing

I don’t really have anything I feel like writing about, but I figured it was time to get the “Merry Christmas” post off the top of my page. So here’s some things you might (but probably won’t) find interesting. I have some items for sale at The Onion Tree, located at Doulgas & Hillside in […]

Apology

The other day I made a sarcastic comment about our communication with Youthville. I was pretty frustrated when I wrote that post, but as Todd and my mom quickly pointed out, I probably shouldn’t have written what I did. So I would like to apologize to Youthville for airing my grievances with it in an […]

Yep

Hi! Remember me? At one time I blogged regularly. I don’t do that so much anymore, so you should just stop expecting it and I’ll stop apologizing when I don’ t do it. Deal? Deal. So what has kept me busy lo these many weeks? Well, first up is getting our house ready to be […]