What Foster Parents Wish Other People Knew
I found this link as I was looking around for Kinship care stories... LOVE it :)
Sunday, 29 September 2013
Friday, 27 September 2013
Sharing my journey to become a mum...
Not from my womb, but my heart...
I took this name from a poem I was sent when Miss E entered our lives over 3 years ago now
something like "...you grew not in my womb, but my heart..."
Perhaps it should read "a blessing from above" like the golden book we love to read together
Master J (18mths) has also joined us and we mightily blessed to be parents to them both
What a journey...
This blog is for a few reasons... to share the journey... it has been lonely at times as I don't know anyone else who's on the same path
...maybe to help someone else who's on a similar path? Or to connect with others who are on a path like mine?
how much to share? will readers understand? will those who are on the same path find this blog and be encouraged, feel less alone?
Kinship care seems to be the closest label for our family, though when I went to a support group recently to see if there were other stories like mine there were none.
Stories of nans and step nans taking in grandchildren because the parents were on drugs was most common, but that's not my story... struggles with family payments and family court, not my story either... children not seeing their birth parents and the effect it has on them, I'm happy to say that's not my story.
So what is my story? I'm still trying to find the right words to adequately tell it...
I took this name from a poem I was sent when Miss E entered our lives over 3 years ago now
something like "...you grew not in my womb, but my heart..."
Perhaps it should read "a blessing from above" like the golden book we love to read together
Master J (18mths) has also joined us and we mightily blessed to be parents to them both
What a journey...
This blog is for a few reasons... to share the journey... it has been lonely at times as I don't know anyone else who's on the same path
...maybe to help someone else who's on a similar path? Or to connect with others who are on a path like mine?
how much to share? will readers understand? will those who are on the same path find this blog and be encouraged, feel less alone?
Kinship care seems to be the closest label for our family, though when I went to a support group recently to see if there were other stories like mine there were none.
Stories of nans and step nans taking in grandchildren because the parents were on drugs was most common, but that's not my story... struggles with family payments and family court, not my story either... children not seeing their birth parents and the effect it has on them, I'm happy to say that's not my story.
So what is my story? I'm still trying to find the right words to adequately tell it...
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