My Family Moments: Today

Saturday, March 22, 2008

Today

The end is coming to a long day. Easter bunny is supposed to be visiting tonight. That is if my son who has been fighting a fever for 3 days and his dad will detach their fingers from the Nintendo DS and go to bed. The things are ready and I can't even believe that. I have consistently been running to the stores for the last 10 or so holidays the evening before or the morning of to complete the Easter Bunny or Santa's responsibilities. Not today. I ran into the "treasure hider place", aka closet, today and as I was entering a slight panic mode, I found a Target bag, a WalMart bag and a Vons bag with all the fixin's. Phew! I mean for real. It never is this good. But don't ask me where their baskets are. I am just going off the good ride and assuming, I know, that they are where they should be upstairs.

We are on Spring Break here in CV. It's good because Er is home too. We get to relax. I get to sleep in a lot. It's nice since I am normally up at 6am everyday to get Ethan to school by 740. Ok well I am up by 645. Horrible. Anyway...we are glad because not only is tomorrow Easter but Papa Verr is home from the Philippines after being gone for 6 weeks. We will see him tomorrow for dinner and some egg hunting. I got the kids some Easter clothes. Simple but I know they will make for some fabulous pictures. I can't wait to see them. Plus, I think this will be the last year I will be able to dress them up without a fight.

Er finished his latest Volleyball tournament today with a championship for his Varsity Boys team. He is really enjoying this new coaching experience. He is usually a golfing fool right now. I did just find out that no games on Fridays for VBall. YAY! That means we can take up mom and dad on some Friday night sleepovers for the kids every now and then.

Happy Easter to umm...me since no one even knows this exists. lol...

1 comment:

Erin said...: I so know what you mean by waiting till the last minute. Way to go for getting it done early!; 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.