Being a Foster Home

My Chick-Fil-A Controversy for Having Too Many Kids

Being a Foster Home

I’m so sick of this Chick-Fil-A controversy! What happened to the right to free speech? ENOUGH already! However, I recently had my own Chick-Fil-A  controversy.  As you know, I’m still adjusting to the dynamics and logistics of large family living and herding 5 children. Last Saturday, after a quick visit with cousins out-of-town, I took [...]

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Shazam! We Have a Large Family! Now What?

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In an instant, with just one phone call, as is true foster family form,we went from a family of 4 to a family of 7! In addition to our rambunctious 5-year-old RADish, Stinkpot, and our sweet 3-year-old, Lil Bit, we now have 3 additional little ones: Finicky 4-year-old, Donut; Energetic, sensory-seeking 21-month-old, Twinkie; Precious 10-month-old, [...]

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I Followed my Heart, Not My Mind – Our New Placements

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Our family grew to 5 children Thursday night. Here is the lineup: almost 1 year, nearly 2 years, 3 years, 4 years and 5 years old.  5 children ages 5 and under. “Are you insane???” That’s the very first thing everyone has said to us. Our reply: “There is a HUGE shortage of foster homes [...]

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Free Online Foster Care Training!

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For those of you that are new to my world, we made the very difficult decision to medicate our explosive child.  Studies have shown that children in foster care are more than 13 times more likely to be prescribed psychotropic medications than the general population. Regulations in the State of Texas require that before foster [...]

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The Kids that Couldn’t Come, then Could, then Didn’t

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If you follow on Facebook and Twitter, you know that we almost had some placements last Thursday. The situation was that a sibling group of 5 needed short-term emergency placement. Because it is nearly impossible to find foster homes available to take 5 children, the State was having to split the siblings into 2 homes. [...]

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One Thing You Shouldn’t Do at Your July 4th Fireworks Celebrations

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She and I were scurrying about, screaming, and holding our heads. Her bratty brother!  I now think back at what he was doing and cringe.  He was shooting bottle rocket fireworks at us! With the July 4th holiday this week, I had a flashback to my youth when I saw this infographic by H&R Block. [...]

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