We have about 473 backups. Backups are the folks that you have named to the agency as babysitters and supports. They go through a background check, they are interviewed by the agency, they are trained in first aid and cpr. They are allowed to watch your child when you can’t. I was kidding, of course, [...]
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backups
Posted in Agency, Blitzen, tagged agency, back-ups, Blitzen, Foster care, foster parenting, friends, Nana, parenting, support on May 3, 2012 | 4 Comments »
More swimsuit stories
Posted in Blitzen, Uncategorized, tagged back-ups, Blitzen, Foster care, foster parenting, friends, imaginative play, Music, parenting, support, village on March 15, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Swimsuit mania continues. Yesterday, for the first time in more than a week, I arrived home to see Blitzen clad in traditional clothing – no swimsuit on under or over her street clothes. But she is still having a lot of fun with the now plural swimsuits. On Saturday, at the store she saw a red polka dotted [...]
The tea party
Posted in Blitzen, Family Visits, tagged adventure, back-ups, Blitzen, village on February 21, 2012 | 4 Comments »
My mother-in-law, P, is helping us with childcare this week (woo-hoo – you rock, P!) while the NYC schools are weirdly closed for a week for winter break. Not to get all old fashioned on you but when I was a kid, winter break was at the end of December and then you just had [...]
Work and play
Posted in Blitzen, Uncategorized, tagged back-ups, Blitzen, imaginative play on February 7, 2012 | 3 Comments »
During a marathon bout of imaginative play with my sister-in-law this weekend, Blitzen informed K and her babies that she couldn’t play right now, she had to work. She told the dolls and stuffed animals assembled that she was busy completing some very important fairy research in her office. Apparently, she was on a deadline! The fact [...]
Shout out to the back-ups
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged back-ups, support, village on October 25, 2011 | 4 Comments »
So I always knew that I had the coolest family and friends. Well, I suspected, now I know. Andrew and I have been haunting the foster blogs pretty regularly and we’ve detected a theme. Apparently not everyone’s family and friends are like – you are gonna be foster parents? that is so cool, how can [...]
what’s a backup? and what’s the most artful to talk people into doing it….
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged back-ups, friends, village on July 28, 2011 | 3 Comments »
So, it is kind of like dating. We’ve moved from hinting to sweet talking to the full-fledged ask. Usually starts with a dinner out, then a friendship version of a love note and then, the proposal — just jump in, worst that can happen is that they say no. Dear Friend or Friends-coupled, Last time [...]
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