Yes, I foster.But it isn't my everything. I keep it in perspective.I live in the real world too; all of it.Our Blue Sky Social Worker visited this week, brilliant.They see their carers once a month or more if necessary.They're helping us with anything we need help with. They're checking to make sure we're not feeling the heat of fostering too much.Or the heat of life itself come to that.The...
Saturday, February 25, 2023
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
SHE WHO MOVES IN A MYSTERIOUS WAY
The older that foster children are, the better their overview of the unfairness of their situation. They can work it out for themselves.Younger ones are plain emotional but lost about what's happening to them. They sense something is very wrong but it's a mystery. Sometimes they get het up without understanding why.When I say "unfairness" I mean that foster children go to school and see classmates...
Tuesday, February 14, 2023
THE UNEXPECTED
In fostering always expect the unexpected.Even dyed in the wool social workers sometimes say, when we tell them stuff;"Blimey! Never thought I'd hear that one."So.Middle foster child is becoming steady and stable. It's been a long haul, 18 months or so.The child's parents are career-chaotics. By which I mean they have been in chaos all their adult lives and seem somehow dedicated to the cause. Both...
Thursday, February 09, 2023
DE-CLUTTERING
It's February out there, and amazingly my New Year Resolutions are going strong.In truth they aren't formal New Year Resolutions, they're merely things I've decided to try to do.There's two of them.On the surface they've got nothing to do with fostering, but then while I was thinking about them while walking back from the shops a couple of days ago I realised that they are very much things that...