Hellobee

Hi all. I’ve been absent lately. I wish I had a better excuse, but I don’t. We are busy, foster care is hard and sometimes I just don’t know what to say about it. Things here are mostly just rolling along about the same. T is thriving and we adore him. He is 10 months […]

What if you are interested in supporting foster kids, foster families, and biological families who are involved in the child welfare system but can’t be a foster parent? Foster parenting is incredibly demanding in so many ways and just isn’t practical for every family. Here are some ways you can help support the system and […]

We don’t get many days off. Between running our business, shuttling T to and from visits, attending foster care training and taking in respite placements, oh, and bottle feeding baby goats, we keep ourselves really busy. This week though we had one day with no visits or appointments, and our bottle baby was starting to […]

I promised an update on little K, as well as our other respite placements. Hopefully this update won’t make so many of you cry at work! To this date we’ve taken in 3 different kids for short term care. All three have loving foster homes of their own and just needed a place to stay […]

I know everyone has heard about how broken the foster system is. Often though, at least in my experience, what you hear is how foster parents aren’t screened thoroughly enough, are only in it for the money, or are neglecting the kids in their care as much as the biological parents were before they were […]

I hesitate to even write about T’s sleep yet, as the superstitious side of me says, “Don’t do it! You’ll jinx it!” I figure most of you readers are parents yourselves though, far more experienced than we are, and you’ll understand the desire to celebrate the small victories even if you know they might be short lived. […]

I thought I’d do a combo one month update and seven month birthday update, as they fell only a few days apart. T turned seven months old three days before the one month anniversary of the day we picked him up. In some ways it seems like we just brought him home, and yet at […]