My Family Moments: Happy Easter!

Sunday, March 23, 2008

Happy Easter!

Today was a great day! Kids didn't wake up so crazy early. Probably because we didn't go to sleep till pretty late. Hey, whatever works right? I, I mean the Easter Bunny sent the kids on a great Egg Hunt for their baskets. It was so fun watching them try to figure things out and even Er was having fun! Then we rested today until it was time to go to Er's mom's for an early relaxed dinner. Dad is back from the Philippines and he brought back video and pictures on how the "mansion" is coming along. Amazing. I saw the air conditioning unit and the water purifier. The most important things for me and mom. We laughed at it. We said as long as there are beds, air conditioning, clean water and that the Massage Therapist and Manicurist can get there, we will be fine! It is beautiful and I saw for the first time the view from the 2nd floor out of the window. It was so tropical and green. Just beautiful. Made me more anxious to get there.

The kids and I are headed to LA tomorrow on the train. Er had volleyball practice for the week so he is home alone for 3 days. The kids and I are excited since we haven't taken a trip on a train before. Should be interesting. I already saw there are only 2 seats together. Not sure how I pull that off. We'll see. Looking forward to going to my dad's and being cooked for with no messes to clean up. Going to work on my crocheting I haven't picked up in about 6 months. The same blanket I have been working on for 3 or so years. Er swears it will be for Ethan's high school graduation.

It's late and really it's already Monday. Gotta sync up the Ipods for the trip. Hasta Manana!

1 comment:

Erin said...: Happy Easter!; Wednesday, March 26, 2008

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"Foster Family" Terminology

SW: Social Worker = This is a professionally trained (at times I feel from a YouTube video) individual who works for any County or private organization. My foster baby will have a SW and I will have a SW who is also known as a CCW. (see below)

CCW: Clinical Case Worker = This is a professionally trained individual, also known as a Social Worker who works for Angel’s Foster Family Network. They are assigned to a maximum of 12 families at one time and lead them through the fostering system. They are our right hand gal. (no males as of yet) This person does all the legal pushing and pulling on our behalf so we can focus solely on loving and caring for our foster babies. I would not and will not ever do my job as a foster mom without these people.

Supervised Visit = The bioparent has rights to see their child no matter the circumstances. Most often the visits begin as 1 to 2 hours, 1 to 2 times a week. An adult that is approved must watch the parent with the child at all times. (sometimes a lot of work and sometimes boring as heck)

Unsupervised Visit = The bioparent has rights to see their child no matter the circumstances before. If they are improving their situation then they will eventually get the right to have visits without supervision. The foster parent must drop off the child at an approved location and pick them up later. Most often the visit is for 2-6 hours 1 to 2 times a week. And these will only increase in length as the situation improves. (super hard for the foster parent to move to this step)

Foster Baby/Child = A child that has been removed from their biological family due to many different reasons affecting the welfare of the child. They are then placed in protective custody under the County and State.