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👩‍👩‍👧 Oh by the way....you’re a mom now

 When you typically have children you have 9 long months to get used to the idea of being a parent. As a foster parent it happens quite literally overnight. Your placement may be an infant, toddler, or even a teenager and suddenly they are yours.   Similar to bringing home a newborn baby, they come with very little instructions. If you are lucky, you know a first and last name, any known allergies and maybe even what school they were enrolled in previously. You have 72 hours to get a new placement seen by a medical provider. Everyone knows that enrolling a child with a pediatrician can be a hassle. Now imagine that you know nothing about your child except their first and last name, a birthday( which you probably will have to look at repeatedly while filling out paperwork), and a Medicaid number. Add to that, the fact that this poor child barely knows you and one of the first memories they get to make with you is a trip to the doctor.  With baby girl, we had a bit mor...
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👶 Our First Placement

 As a part of the licensing procedure, you are asked to select what ages, genders, and races you would prefer as well as if you are open to taking a child with medical needs. We were pretty open with our selections and only requested that the children be ages birth to 7 and we also specified that we would really love either a baby or a sibling group. Everyday sibling groups are being split up into different homes because there are not enough foster families and their houses are already too full to take on a sibling set. We want to try to help keep siblings together even if we can only help one family at a time. We also specified NO medical placements.  Just a few weeks after the new year began, I received a text from our licensing worker that simply stated.  “ I have a 4month old with a shunt and a Gtube, is this something you think you could handle?” I was in the middle of something and forwarded the text to Jazmine. She called our licensing worker to get more informatio...
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💗 Becoming a Foster Parent

I have thought about blogging about our journey for awhile now and it wasn’t until I was speaking with  people recently that I realized just how much it was needed. Many people have heard about being a foster parent, and there are many ideas surrounding it, but very few people truly understand just what it entails. This blog is intended to be just a little glimpse into the life of a foster parent and to share the good, the bad and the ugly.  Growing up, I had always thought about becoming a foster mom someday but had never really looked into what it entailed. When I first met Jazmine she told me that she wanted to become a foster mom and she told me all about growing up in a very large foster family. We talked about our expectations as parents, how we wanted to raise our kids, what type of education and lifestyles we wanted for them etc.  Fast Forward to shortly before we got married. Laying in the dog room, shortly after delivering a litter of puppies we were scrolling o...
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