What A Day

All the kids were out of the house today which meant I accomplished a massive to-do list. Orders and emails and all those little things which just pile up and a Target trip solo…which was like a slice of heaven even if I was purchasing things like dishwasher tablets…and the scheduling of 5000 appointments for our littlest. Maybe not 5000, but it sure does feel like it. Foster care is crazy amazing, but equally crazy exhausting trying to keep up with everything…it semi consumes us…and makes us lose our mind when all the working parts of foster care are just not working quite right…so many moving parts. It’s a process for sure. We’re learning patience and passion. We’re learning when to listen and when to fight. We’re learning what we already knew…that family is worth fighting for. It’s been a day. I need a cookie 🙂

We’ve only been in this foster care gig for just shy of a year so far…I kind of can’t believe it’s already been that long…and I’m still learning so many, many things. I did want to share a little foster care tip today though. We always choose to celebrate our littlest parents’ on their special days. I know this isn’t always an option for everyone, but it is for us, so it works great. We made a special canvas for her mom on Mother’s day along with some yummy chocolate and a card.

And for Father’s Day we made her dad the sweetest Chatbook of all the pictures of his little girl in the time she’s been with us. This is my new favorite gift. Chatbooks are crazy, crazy easy to put together (computer or app…I used the app on my phone), really reasonably priced and he loved it. Her mom just gushed about it and her birthday is coming up soon, so I ordered her a new one today. I’m thankful for pictures to document this time with her not only for us, but for her parents too. I try and always think about how I would feel to be on the flip side of this situation and how desperately I would want to be included in my kids’ life and see what all I was missing.

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