Thursday, March 11, 2010
For obvious reasons, as long as the State of Texas is the guardian of a child, there remains a high-level of confidentiality. That means that we cannot post pictures of any foster children, nor can we reveal their names.
Sadly, we cannot post the super-cute pictures of the foster child we will refer to as CL that we got for respite (basically specialized babysitting) today. He is a very active blonde three-year-old. His foster mother brought him by at 5:00 PM this afternoon. He was placed with her just two weeks ago and she already had big Spring Break plans with family out-of-state. We were thrilled that she chose us to watch him. We will have him until Tuesday, March 16th when she returns. We have big, fun plans for the next several days.
Tomorrow (Friday) we head out to the Fort Worth Zoo – the best zoo in Texas! We plan to see lions, gorillas, rhinos, elephants, giraffes, meerkats and much more. We also plan on taking the little train at the zoo and riding the carousel. This should be a very full day.
On Saturday we go to my (Jack) Mom and Dad’s farm. There we will get to see cows, chickens, ducks, geese, swans and other animals – also another busy day.
Sunday we go to church at Fellowship Church in Plano in the morning and then head to the Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas (where we are members). We will go on the Dino Trails, learn all about dinosaurs and see much of the rest of the museum. Some areas are geared toward older kids, so we will skip those.
Monday is daycare all day until 5:00. His foster mom wanted him to go Monday and Tuesday to keep up with the socialization. Evidently, he does not enjoy going to it, but has lots of fun once he gets there. Monday is the day that Edison and I tear down the existing fence and start building a nice cedar one. We also meet with our case worker for Covenant Kids (CK) at 4:00 and Melinda has to take care of some things during the day that have been planned for a while. Once home, we will hang around the house, play games, color, read books, watch movies and have lots of fun.
Tuesday until early afternoon we plan to take him back to daycare. On the last afternoon with him we will take him the Children’s Museum (a special part of the Museum of Nature and Science just for toddlers) and have lots of fun before heading back to deliver him to his foster mom.
There could be one wrinkle in all these plans…we could be getting our own foster child.
Wednesday afternoon we got a call about placing a one-year-old boy (that we will refer to as CN for now) with us for foster care. Early yesterday evening, after being removed from his home, it looked like he might have gone with a relative. However, Melinda got a call from another CK case worker this afternoon saying that it looks like we might be taking him after all. Now, according to this case worker, “it could be tomorrow… or next week.” Timelines in the foster care / adoption world vary wildly and are highly unpredictable. That is the nature of the complex system that always seeks the best possible situation for the children at any given moment. If we do get little CN, we will still try to do everything with CL, but may have to alter the timing of some of the activities. We are trying to keep our anticipation down since things can change in a blink of an eye and we don’t have CN until we have him.
Regardless of what happens, we still have lots of fun planned for the next few days! Stay tuned…
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