Our Fostering Journey

We have fostered for many years and have grown our family during the process. However, in the last year we have realized that our family make up makes it difficult to continue. It seems as though the children coming into our home have had behaviors that are not a good mix with our family. Kids who act out sexually, push toddlers down stairs, pull knives, peep on the girls.  Older kids are difficult given our older kids and toddlers are not compatible with our current foster toddler child. Yes, we can do babies and we currently have a 4 month old who landed at our home at 2 weeks old. However, with our family we don't want to have perpetual babies, the kids are getting older and want to do more activities. Hmmm, actually with grand babies coming along I imagine we will be holding babies or little ones for a long time.

So our last two foster babies are our last two foster kids. We aren't full, we can still be licensed; we have simply decided that we have done all that we can. In some ways it breaks my heart because there is such a need. However, we need to step back and put more time into our family. Michelle is doing an after school theater activity and has decided to do after school tutoring in math to get on the honor roll, she has finally gotten the self motivation to excel! Larissa is still homeschooling, dancing, modeling and singing, Benjamin is dancing and has begged to model so we are allowing him to do so, he starts classes next week. He has asked to take guitar lessons, will have to see if we can fit that in the budget, might wait a bit. Anthony is not interested in doing any activities although we have encouraged him to do so. He is however keeping passing grades and is doing well since he has gone into regular classes. He is doing well so we don't push other activities. Emma, well she is regressing, another post.

So if you wonder why my posts are sporadic....I am busy! We will foster until our current cases are completed.