[TNfostermom]

I got a call yesterday at 5pm about a sibling group of four. I asked "Have we been approved?" because I hadn't gotten an official call telling me we had been. I told her I couldn't take all four (not for our first experience) but we could take the older two, T a boy age 8 and S a girl age 5. She called back about half an hour later to say we had been approved, or we wouldn't be on her call list. She was waiting on a call from another foster parent who was considering taking the younger two, D a boy age 4 and A a boy age 14 months. I didn't hear anything after that, so I started putting my two boys to bed. The phone rang and they asked for directions to my house, they were bringing the older two. They got to my house at 11:30pm. Both children were sleeping in the van. The boy came in sat down on the couch and went right back to sleep. The girl stayed up for about a half hour. The workers stayed for about 15 mins., getting the children comfortable and telling us a little about them. They were very well behaved all day today. The boy played with my boys, said a cuss word twice (which my younger son told him we don't say words like that in this house) and put a thumb tack on my older sons chair. The girl stayed close to me most of the day. My dogs kept barking at her and she would tell them to "shut up." Pretty minor kid issues. They had a meeting at 5:30 today and it was decided that great-grandma and great-aunt would take them. They had been taken from mom because she was arrested for drug possession. They had been living with grandpa, but his live-in girlfriend was just arrested for drug possession. Over all it was a great first placement. We didn't have them long enough to get really attached, but we got to experience what being a foster parent is all about. Sitting in the meeting with all the family there was a little strange, but they seemed like nice people. They just have problems, like everyone else, only their problems affect the children.

[momofmykids]

Sounds like you did great! That first placement...oh how well I remember it!

What part of TN do you live in? I live right outside Knoxville.

God bless!

[Kate1129]

Wow! That's something!


Welcome to the "whirlwind" of foster care!!!

[hubbyswife]

Wow! Congrats! We still have our very first placement and it looks like we might be able to adopt him, but as u know time will tell.....

So, u actually got to meet the bfamily. Here they keep us confidential, well they try to at least... We have no clue what the bparents look like.....

CONGRATULATIONS AGAIN and

WELCOME TO FOSTER-PARENTHOOD!!!

[PAmomof1]

It sounds like you did wonderfully! I still have my first placement. Have had her since Feb 4 of this year.


I hope you get another call really soon!

[momofmykids]

Originally Posted by hubbyswife

So, u actually got to meet the bfamily. Here they keep us confidential, well they try to at least... We have no clue what the bparents look like.....

Hubbyswife...
In TN, sometimes the fparent is the person who supervises the visit! LOTS of cwer's quitting, in east TN, anyway. I've even given a bmom a ride home...more than once!

[TNfostermom]

We are in Newport, about an hour away from Knoxville. We moved here from Sevierville about four months ago. We are orginally from Florida (the Tampa area). We moved to east Tennessee in Jan. 1999.

[momofmykids]

Awesome! My oldest son came from the Newport area, and my best friend is from there, too!