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Donald’s Team Meeting
Recently I attended Donald’s team meeting… the first since Daffy was adopted. I have to admit, I did not look forward to attending…. not because I don’t want to be involved with his case, but because...
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Our Christmas Visit With Donald
Smudged RTC initials in photos to protect Donald’s privacy Donald told Daffy & I last night that he was “off level” for attacking two staff members. I emailed the clinician this morning to get more...
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Christmas Visit
Daffy was supposed to have a visit with her birth mom to celebrate the holidays last week, but due to heavy snow, it was cancelled twice and Jan 2nd became the day. Daffy was disappointed that their...
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This Open Adoption Thing
@houseofwillies commented the following on my last post: So I’m fairly new to the blog and have been following your Twitter as well. So I am wondering how the relationship between you and birth parents...
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A little of this and a little of that…
A friend of mine took Daffy for the weekend…. it was quite a nice and unexpected break! Overall, Daffy has been in relatively good spirits since Daisy and April left in December, but she is still...
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End of the Road
This is the letter I sent to Donald’s team on Monday: Dear Team, With the team meeting coming up Wednesday, I wanted to get some of my thoughts out to you all ahead of time. I understand that my...
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What a day!
At the moment, I am eating, sleeping and now BLOGGING foster care. It’s oozing out of every pore! The day started out with a planned visit between Daffy & her birth mom. While planned, I hadn’t...
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All Kinds of Updates
Our License: Our foster care license expired earlier this month. The family voted to renew it… all except me. Our resource worker sent me the paperwork and I immediately forwarded it to Mickey. If he...
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More Changes
Last I wrote, we were awaiting Daffy’s TFCBT assessment and the treatment plan from Daffy’s therapist. As usual, a lot has happened. We finally heard back from Daffy’s therapist via email. She decided...
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The Birth Family Letters
As I think I’ve shared, Daffy has not seen her birth Mom since July and her birth brother, Donald, since December 2012. We have allowed letters to be exchanged during that time, but of course we open...
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