Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Our First Placement

We were approved for our Foster Care License on Tuesday, June 19th!  Our first placement was for respite care.  Respite care is when a licensed foster parent watches the foster children of another foster parent for an extended period of time.  In our case, we watched a four year old girl and two year old boy over the weekend, so the foster parents could go out of town.

It went great, but was definitely a lot of work.  I'm beginning to really understand the term "strong willed child".  It was a learning process, but in the end the kids had fun and were clean & fed when they went home Sunday afternoon.  We even took them to church and they did well in their Sunday School classes.  We're still waiting for a call to receive our first long term placement.  It could be today or a month from now.  Let the adventure begin!

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