It has been well over a year since I last wrote, and I thought that I should post a quick update before we farewell 2022 and usher in the New Year. Some people have asked about why I haven’t written, and there are a couple of reasons for this. -Firstly, time. My life has gotten… Continue reading Our 2022
Tag: fostering
Early Morning Ramble
I still have cause to wake in the night, tossing and turning, overheated, my pulse racing, unable to switch off my thoughts. My inner voice jostles with itself. Go to sleep. You will regret this later. -I know, I was reading till midnight. I can’t afford to lose sleep. Then go to sleep. -I’m trying,… Continue reading Early Morning Ramble
Our Last Days Together
I reassured the girls constantly that we could talk on the phone, see each other every week, have sleepovers each month. We will see each other all the time, I said. Not everyday, they said.
Seesaw
Back and forth, back and forth. Forever going in circles, always cycling back to the same question. The same conclusion. Can we really keep doing this? In early February my husband decided that he didn’t think we should care for Miss A and Miss L anymore. I was devastated, but really, I agreed. The lying,… Continue reading Seesaw
The Journey Home
Four years ago, our local GP delivered some shocking news… He told me that my children had chicken pox. Drink plenty of fluids. Take some Panadol. Stay home. Come back in a week. I called my mother and I wept. At the time, I was twenty-five with five kids under the age of five. I… Continue reading The Journey Home
13 Things I wish I had known before I became a kinship carer
Lately, I have been mentally compiling a list of all the things that I wish I had known before I had become a kinship carer. Perhaps this list may be of some assistance to someone contemplating fostering? Please note that this list is specific to my family’s situation, and I am aware that some categories… Continue reading 13 Things I wish I had known before I became a kinship carer
The Shoes
Yesterday Miss L came home from school with a rubber band holding together one of her broken black shoes. Her teacher was concerned that the shoe had become a fall hazard. Last term I purchased an $80 pair of school shoes for Miss A, so today I tell Miss L that she can wear her… Continue reading The Shoes
Consumed
Four months ago I wrote about waiting for Baby M to be born. I have attempted to write a couple of times since little Miss M joined our family, however I have struggled to finish an entry. The following entry has been started and restarted several times. If I had written in the week following… Continue reading Consumed
An essay in response to small talk
“How are you going?” Do you know how to respond to this question? Sometimes this question transforms me into a dim-witted, bumbling oaf as I stumble for an adequate response, blurting out punctuated remarks like “Good! Hot!”, “Busy! Tired.” Or the classic “O-K…”which starts out with a high pitched squeak and fades into an uncertain… Continue reading An essay in response to small talk
My 2019 Resolution
About five months ago I started writing the following blog entry entitled “Joiners”. Some people are “joiners”; they get involved in everything and their lives are filled with committee meetings, volunteering and serving, baking for the latest event, running around frantically behind the scenes, and generally being busy with all that is involved with being… Continue reading My 2019 Resolution
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