Foster care

Update on our Spending Looking at our Budget

12/01/2011 by Sandra 1 Comment

I am focusing on reducing our food budget for the time being. In the month of December our budget for our family of 4 was approximately 750.00. This include a new family member foster child who is currently living with us.

My goal for the month of December will be 700.00 including my Christmas baking gifts. I will do my best to get to that goal let’s see how I do later this month.

Do you have a food budget? What is your budget for your family?

Let me know your thoughts in the comments and maybe even your blog url so we can give one another tips. Thanks and Merry Christmas/ Happy Holidays 🙂

Here is a link to my previous post on our spending

Looking at our Spending

Foster Parenting Things Change Fast

11/13/2010 by Sandra 3 Comments

Well my last post was at our beginning of our foster parenting experience. This post today is the first in a series of post about our families last few months.

On August 13, 2010 we got a new placement, a young 7 yr old boy. I was glad to be called again to foster a child and so was my family. I prayed our family could really bless him, and he would stay in our home till he was ready to go home. My 7 yr old son was so happy to have another boy to spend time with. We knew that this little boy had some behavior issues, just not the extent of it till after all the papers were signed and we were back home. I was about to find out something that would not work for our family and we were not told of this.

To be continued…..

Long Weekend Preparing For Our Foster Kids

06/29/2010 by Sandra 2 Comments

My husband and I spent the all weekend and Monday putting the final touches to our home. We got the long awaited call last Thursday that two boys ages 4 and 7 would be place in our home. See we are new foster parents and our family knows that this will not always be an easy road but we are so excited to be able to have another child bless us.

But it didn’t happen, at least not yet for as we learned the process is full of twists and turns. I am thankful I had my feet on the ground and didn’t go along with my husbands idea of going out to purchase items for our two precious boys. We might have spent all that time and money buying and now we still don’t have the kids here.

My suggestion was to wait till they were in our home and then get things for them they may need. My dear husband was so excited he wanted to go out and get all sorts of items he imagined the children would feel comfortable with. His heart was in the right place, but it wasn’t the practical thing to do. Poor fella he was a bit disappointed to hear that the kids were not ready to be place just yet.

So now as new foster parents in the system, we wait for our one or two blessings to arrive so that we can pour all our love and attention on them.