About a year ago, when we first began working with our agency, it seemed as though the “home study” was the holy grail, that once we got there, we were home free. Now, it is beginning to feel like the Sisyphus challenge.  The home study is the document that the children’s social worker uses to [...]

Punk Cookery, The Punk Rocker’s Cafe Cookbook, Vegetarian Specialties by Ian Finn

My review

rating: 5 of 5 starsI certainly haven’t tried every recipe in this book, but I have tried enough to know that it is spot on for what it is offering, which is a variety of grubbing, basic vegetarian [...]

Several families at our Foster Parent class recommended 1-2-3 Magic.  I was talking to my friend A-, who is a quadriplegic mom (so she completely relies on verbal control of her kid); her kid is almost 2 and she really needed to figure out some new methods of getting behavior from her daughter.
I loved this book [...]

It has been hard for me to claim the word “abusive” with regards to my childhood, partly because I knew families that were much more violent than mine.  On the other hand, there was spanking, pinching hand-slapping and a lot of emotional abuse in my upbringing.  I would say that physically, my childhood was borderline [...]

I originally saw our second dog, Rocky on petfinder.com. I knew as soon as I saw him that he was the dog for us. He looked a lot like Clover, but was smaller and male. We thought that all of these things made him very compatible with Clover.  Not to mention that he had the [...]

All foster parents are required to take a class through the county or their sponsoring agency.  It covered a wide range of topics from an overview of the fost-adopt process and parenting techniques to typical scenarios that children “in the system” have gone through.  The class was a very positive thing that relieved many of our [...]