Lump of Coal Gift boxes @ Tatertots and Jello
Purse Picture Frame @ Infarrantly Creative
A few of the things I want to do, and I am sure I will find some more. I better get to creating only about 5 weeks to go.
Craft, Create, Celebrate Life
Lump of Coal Gift boxes @ Tatertots and Jello
Purse Picture Frame @ Infarrantly Creative
A few of the things I want to do, and I am sure I will find some more. I better get to creating only about 5 weeks to go.
This post is a continuation of this post
This young 7 yr old had anger issues directed at young children, especially 2 to 4 yr old. We have a 3 yr old son, who is very passive and sweet and this issue was not shared with us. We wanted to try despite this issue and it didn’t work out very well at all. While my husband was away on a work trip it all come to surface on evening.
This cute precious boy got angry and went after our home furniture and walls. The scariest part for me was he lashed out at me, since I had sent my young son and older son to the room away from the episode of rage. I assume since I was the only one available it was turned at me. I asked for him to be removed from our home that very night and he was placed in a temp home till Sunday night. This episode happened on a Thursday night, he was away for 3 nights and returned for one night to our home before being permanently place in another home.
I later learned that this boy raged for 9 days straight at that home as well. My heart ached for him, but my first instinct is my family and I pray for him still almost daily. I still have pictures of him and some of his school project too save away, not sure why but I do. There are many details that I want to add such as the fishing trip we went on with the kids and the few dinners we had as a family while he was here. Also the anxiety I felt as 3:30 pm drew near everyday and I knew the school bus was about to leave him at our home every weekday. What a mix of emotions we all had for those few weeks we had him here. His last day with our family was August 30, 2010 That same day he left our 11 yr old girl returned, actually just as I was walking in to the office, I got the call that she was to return to our home. I was sad and happy at the same time for the first time in time, as I was pretty emotionally attached to this girl.
To be continued
I have not had a chance to proof read this before posting, I will at a later time.
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Well my last post was at our beginning of our foster parenting experience. This post today is the first in a series of post about our families last few months.
On August 13, 2010 we got a new placement, a young 7 yr old boy. I was glad to be called again to foster a child and so was my family. I prayed our family could really bless him, and he would stay in our home till he was ready to go home. My 7 yr old son was so happy to have another boy to spend time with. We knew that this little boy had some behavior issues, just not the extent of it till after all the papers were signed and we were back home. I was about to find out something that would not work for our family and we were not told of this.
To be continued…..
The last 2 1/2 weeks have been rather a learning experience for our family. We had our first foster girl placed and we started our roller coaster ride. I have not even read any of my google reader blogs, emails etc. I really did forget about my pc.
Our placement was 11 yrs old soon to be 12, and difinitely new for me. I just dove right in and enjoyed most of it. I learned lots about clothes, hair, painting nails and more. I had to put my parenting skills to use 105% and it wasn’t always easy. I thought we were doing very good our little family, but we were wrong, oh so wrong.
She was having thoughts all along of hurting herself and she expressed that on Monday of this week and then to her therapist on Tuesday. Immediate action was taken to protect her from doing anything to herself once it was made known to us. When she realized where she was going she was totally rebellious for the first time since we had met her. She walked out the door while I was getting instructions on the phone. I quickly hung up the phone and called the police to help me find her, which they did after searching for 30 minutes. They returned to our home and drove her to where she needed to be.
I can’t explain how sad I felt for her, but at the same time glad she was in a safe place. I miss her every morning, but I am not sure if I will get to talk to her again. I have prayed for her now more than I have since she arrived at our home.
On Wednesday morning we were called to receive our 2nd placement which is a 7 yr old boy. We will meet him this coming Monday. I am praying for this lil guy already and for our family to help him and bless him no matter what amount of time he is here.