My Family Moments: Mommy and Me

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Mommy and Me

Abby and I splurge every now and then with McDonald's for breakfast. She loves pancakes! Loves them! But today as we were sitting there getting ready to eat, I turned to her and said,"When you go to Kindergarten who's going to eat breakfast with me?" For the first time, Abby was speechless! We had a moment and took some pics being silly. I love this one the best! Lucky for me I have a breakfast buddy for another year and a half!

1 comment:

Erin said...: Amy that is so special!!! You've got a wonderful little girl to treasure forever.; Thursday, May 22, 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.