Hello everyone,
I had an extremely busy weekend! I had a six year old respite female for six days in in the middle of that I got a call for a 9 month old baby girl that I accepted!
Here's my dilemma, I really enjoyed the respite child. She was however EXTREMELY hyperactive and bratty but she had a lot of good things about her too. She would definitely require a lot of work. The home that she's in now does not want to keep her because she's going up for adoption and they don't want to adopt. So I could be an option. I've already spoken to my caseworker and told her that I was interested.
I'm not sure how long the baby will be here, but there is a shelter hearing scheduled for today so we will see. The baby has been okay. She cries ALOT!!!! She cries whenever I leave the room or when she can't see me. I suspect that she's been left alone a lot especially considering that she was left face down outside of her "alleged" father's home
Here's where the plot thickens sort of, lol. I have a 16 month old FD and a 10 year old Bio Daughter!
I've never had four kids before!!! I'm nervous! Especially when the six year old has a lot of issues. She has a TSS worker and everything. However, her issues don't seem too out of the ordinary.
I'm extremely nervous because I want to be able to be a good mom to everyone and I need to know how people do it with a big family. (maybe some don't consider 4 kids big, but I'm an only child!)
How do you guys give the children enough individual time.
I'm a SAHSM for now, I do books for some of the small businesses in my area, and get paid to do a lot of work for 2 sister churches and that allows me to stay home with the kids
I so want to make this work, I guess I just need tips and to know that I'm not totally crazy for considering this, lol!!!!!!