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  • the children speak

    As it happens, things are moving towards all three children being returned to their families sometime during the summer. As Rob and I prepared ourselves for this eventuality we got some surprising news.The case worker f…

  • big step

    this morning rob and i will be heading to the little one's 'family planning meeting' it's the first time that we've been asked to participate. the goal is still reunification with a family member so we are there to off…

  • foster children's point of view

    if you don't think you can make a difference think again

  • sing praises

    thanks to everyone who left encouragement and support on the last post. this is one of the things i like about xanga. it helps connect people and gives you an invisible web of knowledge and fellowship that otherwise so…

  • so sad...

    As a foster parent in the state of NJ, it's really frustrating to see that leadership like this can't be stable. Kids in the state are soooo in need of some stability in their lives and the fact that the organization th…

  • is it in the cards?

    darn xanga....lost a big post here. rob and i had another meeting with our case worker yesterday. we talked about open adoption for maddie. open adoption is where the birth parents maintain some contact with the chi…

  • honesty?

    on the topic of honesty, late last week we got some drama on the adoption/foster care front. it turns out that the kids case worker [not ours] was misreporting visits on his files. he was claiming t…

  • the wait

    <META> so between microblogging on my twitter, the adoptiongay.com page that rob and i post to infrequently, and this xanga page...i've noticed a real decline in my posts here. sorry if you read this on the ad…

  • almost!

    well as i was sitting in the doctor's office yesterday with M [she had a checkup..she's fine.] my phone rang. it was our adoption case worker and she said "oh...i have a newborn girl that is the 8th child from a mother …

  • we got our first kid!

    so rob and i got a call late yesterday afternoon and it was the news that a little girl of 3 years needed a place for a week or maybe longer. we rushed home to meed maddy. she's the sweetest, most adorable, and talkati…