News from our fostering recruitment team-2020 is well and truly underway
This is our first Foster in Dorset blog but we thought this was a great way to let you know about what we have been up to and what’s coming up.
Oh! Yes it is – the January blog from foster carer Amanda
A sea of paper in every room, noise level up ten octaves and barely-open presents tossed on the floor. I’m still in my dressing room looking like an extra from the Gremlins and my husband is sat with five boxes of chocolates, a little overwhelmed at where to begin. Must be Christmas day.
The latest from of foster carer blog – The prelude to a foster carer, environmentally friendly Christmas
R is one of these extraordinary children who puts all his rubbish in the bin and spends a lot of time trying to save the planet. He also would spend every waking hour using tons of electricity on the computer if we let him but hey we will let that one go.
The latest from our foster carer Amanda – The show must go on
What happens when everyone goes back to school, back to work and you are planning a funeral for 200 attendees ? Well you start drinking a lot of caffeine and join a musical to keep you sane.
The latest blog from our foster carer Amanda – Two very different goodbyes.
The Summer holidays were never going to be easy. Apart from keeping seven children entertained, I knew we were facing the imminent departure of my eldest foster child. My lovely Mr C had been with us for two years and now he was transitioning home. With my heart trailing on the floor I started preparing… Read more The latest blog from our foster carer Amanda – Two very different goodbyes.
Find out the latest from our foster carer Amanda – Two mother and baby placements.
So July, how did we get here already? I think I’ve stumbled through June in a haze of sleep deprived semi consciousness. Why ? Because my lovely cat decided to give birth to three kittens under my foster son’s bed. During a visit from his case social worker no less.
Lights, camera, action ……
It’s all go for Amanda’s family with shows, painting and panel to think about. Here’s the latest installment of her fostering blog
Builders, bedrooms and birth families – the latest from our foster carer Amanda
So the first of March, I woke up and opened my curtains to embrace the first signs of Spring. I then shut them rather sharpish when I’d realised I’d forgotten the builders had started and I was seriously not appropriately attired.
