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Inside the Parent Trap: Google Voice and Foster Care
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Inside the Parent Trap. Parenting teens and taking on foster care, will this work? What you should know about me. Monday, August 25, 2014. Google Voice and Foster Care. I'm not sure if I mentioned here on the blog that I have been writing letters to Primo's first Mom and Dad. This has been going well and the letters have been positive and informative. Before I started writing I set up a PO Box in a neighboring town. This brings us to today. We are now waiting on a finalization date and I'm still feel...
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Inside the Parent Trap: True Dat Tuesday
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Inside the Parent Trap. Parenting teens and taking on foster care, will this work? What you should know about me. Tuesday, January 13, 2015. In the past year I have twice met up with some local foster parents with the purpose of talking with a couple who are interested in foster care. Results: 1 couple has been placed with an adoptive placement via foster care. 1 couple is now fostering dogs for a local rescue. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Primo: our foster son who arrived during the fall of 2011.
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Ready | Safety & Refuge
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In)fertility, foster care and what happens after. June 12, 2013. Denying the loss, I know I am finally ready to really open our home back up. We’ve had a few calls, mostly ones that don’t fit our profile. But, a few weeks ago we had a call that I think could have been a perfect fit. A 13 year old girl who had a relatively stable life and good relationships within her family. Until she didn’t. Husband said no, absolutely not. Words were exchanged. An argument ensued. Thirteen year old girl. And I wait, be...
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Inside the Parent Trap: February 2015
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Inside the Parent Trap. Parenting teens and taking on foster care, will this work? What you should know about me. Thursday, February 26, 2015. Primo's revised birth certificate has arrived and I'm headed to the social security office today. This is the last piece of the post adoption puzzle I need to take care of! Links to this post. Monday, February 16, 2015. But like all things in child welfare, the clocks are set in months, not minutes.". To the End of June, Cris Beam. Links to this post. Dr Francine ...
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In)fertility, foster care and what happens after. October 8, 2014. Paternal Aunt made another stab at trying to convince Husband and I that it would be best for the three kids to stay in Sending State. Reading her message, my feelings came fast and furious. This is how it went:. Indignant. You think the kids would be better off with family who are so neck-deep in denial that they never even noticed that mom and dad were drug addicts and the kids were being neglected? Anger You’ve got to be kidding me!
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Inside the Parent Trap: To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care, by Cris Beam
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Inside the Parent Trap. Parenting teens and taking on foster care, will this work? What you should know about me. Saturday, February 14, 2015. To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care, by Cris Beam. This is the latest book on foster care that I'm reading. I read a lot about foster care. Sometimes I think I read too much about foster care. Let's face it reading about foster care can be depressing. Here are a few quotes from the book that touched me:. How did that work out? It's partly...
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Inside the Parent Trap: Post adoption visit
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Inside the Parent Trap. Parenting teens and taking on foster care, will this work? What you should know about me. Monday, January 26, 2015. We had our first post adopting visit with Primo's first Mom yesterday. Over all it went very well, but I still need time to process it all. January 26, 2015 at 2:16 PM. I can see how this would cause lots of conflicting emotions for me. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). E: foster son in our home for extended respite during the summer of 2011. Damn you foster care.
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Inside the Parent Trap: November 2014
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Inside the Parent Trap. Parenting teens and taking on foster care, will this work? What you should know about me. Sunday, November 16, 2014. Overheard as I came down the stairs today: "Primo, that's just your ninja move, you can't really kick daddy". Links to this post. Sunday, November 9, 2014. I'm finding having a three year old to be very trying. You'd think I'd remember what 3 was like? 3 year old children before Primo. I DO IT. MYSELF. Me: ready for school? Me: time for a potty break. E: foster son ...
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Safety & Refuge | (in)fertility, foster care and what happens "after". | Page 2
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In)fertility, foster care and what happens after. Something Special in the Mundane. January 3, 2013. There is something so routine, so culturally engrained in me, that I didn’t recognize it as anything special at all, until I did it twice this week. I put Blue Eyes on the bus. It’s an awesome feeling. I keep holding out hope that my husband will be able to quit (or will be let go, that would be fine, too! January 3, 2013. Two baths a day it is. Want me to read. Will it make me second guess everything I&#...
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September | 2014 | Safety & Refuge
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In)fertility, foster care and what happens after. Monthly Archives: September 2014. Dealing with DHS Again. September 9, 2014. My feelings about this are nothing if not ambivalent. I mean, I’m so excited she’s coming back- BEYOND thrilled. But why did she have to leave in the first place? I was the only Mom she knew. Why couldn’t she have stayed and been saved the heartache and grief this recent removal and termination has begun and will be sure to bring? Were those 8 years with her mom worth it? And thi...
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