National Foster Care Month & a Winner

Stinkpot in Galvestion Summer 2009

It’s June already, and summer is here in Texas! We’ve already hit 100 degrees! With the drought, it’s going to be a scorcher summer.

It’s also the end of National Foster Care Month. Not that every month can’t be meant to spread awareness for the needs of  foster children.  We had 34 incredible stories of foster care shared on our Foster Care Blog Hop.  Instead of closing the blog hop, we will keep it open so that every foster parent can add their story.

I sent the update letter with photos of Lil Bit to his birth mother. She was supposed to provide an address, but didn’t, so I sent it to her last known address (her grandparent). Thank you for all your words of advice on what to include or leave out. {I did mention Lil Bit’s hospital stay last February, but downplayed it since he recovered so quickly.}

That post had great comments, and brought up a great discussion on open adoption. Later this month, we can delve further into open adoption and when it would and would not be a wise choice.

In July, we will hopefully be adding a forum community to our Foster2Forever website.  A forum community would be a place where you can ask questions and have conversations with other foster parents or others who join in the conversation. Would you be interested in participating in a forum community here? Let me know in the comments.

Looks like we have a winner of our Beauty Case Giveaway (selected by the WordPress Plug-in “And the Winner Is“)