Fostering The Love In Kansas

This weekend, we did the one thing I have wanted to do since I was licensed to be a foster parent.  We got a library card for him.  The first couple of weeks I had him, he wouldn't sit through me reading more than a page or two to him.  But since he's started school, he's actually asked me to read to him and I could not be happier!  I told myself that I would be the "mom" that read a couple of books to her kids every night and I was sad when Little Man didn't take to it.  But now, we have been reading every night and he even picked out a few of the books himself. Had to start reading when we drove home This weekend was also Halloween.  Now Little Man doesn't understand Halloween.  We watched cartoons, we read books, we talked about it...but he never really understood it.  He got that he was able to wear a costume and that is something he loves to do, but he doesn't get the core concept of the holiday (it seems to be the same with Christmas t...

Here is what I have learned from being a foster mom for 43 days (that's 6 weeks and a day): 1. Telling a child to stop picking their nose will increase the number of fingers up said nose. 2. As a foster parent, I am in the dark when it comes to what is happening outside of what Little Man and I have going on.  It's incredibly frightening to think that things are being decided without any input from me. 3. I have never known exhaustion like I know it now. 4. Getting enrolled in school is easy until you introduce foster care and IEP from a different county.  I'm not sure what's going to happen, but it's not cut and dry. 5. Halloween seems to be a foreign concept to Little Man, but we have a costume that I would not have picked out for him.  But he chose it so we are going as Mario. Now to explain trick-or-treating.