Making a difference...One Starfish at a time

Our family started fostering back in 2005. We have been blessed to love on many babies. There has been many twists and turns throughout our journey and in December of 2010 we were called for placement of a newborn baby boy. His biological mother worked a case plan for 18 months and after 23 months she surrendered her rights and we adopted 'Sprout' in December of 2012. Our faith has been tried and tested and we are still certain that God is faithful!

November 14, 2008

Today was Daisy's 1st 2 hour visit with her 'parents'. We spent the 1st 35 minutes doing an evaluation regarding Daisy's development. She is doing well. Then the 'daddy man' and I went out to breakfast and did a bit of shopping. Daisy was extremely tired when we picked her up and was asleep even before we left the parking lot. I know I have NO opinion about this but these 2 hour visits really take a toll on her tiny body. Anyway, I spoke to the caseworker and was 'reprimanded' (I use the term loosely) for the 'daddy man' calling himself 'daddy' in front of Daisy's 'parents'. Psycho Chick complained and we got 'yelled at'. What the heck is she SUPPOSED to call us? We are supposed to bring these children into our home, feed them, clothe them, love on them and 'raise' them as our own but they have to call us Mr. & Mrs.?????!?!?!?!?! Makes no sense. Anyway, we were told that it's not appropriate for her to call us 'mommy' & 'daddy. wHaTeVeR!!! Then upon further discussion with the caseworker, I was told that MANY children have come into care since Monday. It's funny...the phone rang on Wednesday night and I didn't pick it up because I was sleeping and I didn't actually hear who it was. About 10 minutes later when I checked the caller ID, it was DSS. Since it was after 5pm (after hours) I called back to the home finder's line thinking that if she was looking for a home for a placement...we might get lucky. Unfortunately, no one answered her line OR the supervisors line...I left it alone. But here it is 3 days later and they tell me 7 kids have come into care...I guess it just wasn't meant to be.

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