My Family Moments: May Gray

Monday, May 12, 2008

May Gray

Ok...it's freezing, ya it's 58 but c'mon...it's San Diego! For some reason this years May Gray is killing me! I'm cold...Mother's Day was yesterday and Er was gone in his BBall trip to Vegas as he is every year. He left Thursday and I worked Friday evening and Saturday afternoon. My biggest gift this weekend was Er's parents watching the kids from Friday afternoon till Saturday evening. After work on Friday I was able to veg and then wake up to a quiet house. It was very nice! I got an awesome T-Shirt from Ethan that his teacher helped them make. It had his picture in the middle with a letter written to me in Spanish. It was so cool! So Cool! I got my first handmade mother's day gift from Abby. She was so excited to give it to me. It was a cute card with a little sachet of potpourri.

My dad is coming tomorrow to help me get organized and cleaned up in the office. I think my biggest flaw which makes my house look dirtier than it really is, is the paper clutter. Just the things that are not put in the right files whether bills or the trash file. I hope my dad can give me some solutions that I can get down! Seriously...I cant get a hold of it. I'm feeling positive!

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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.