the make up

Blitzen and I had a day to ourselves to play on Friday.  I was excited but approaching our girls’ day with some trepidation since we’d had some rough moments last week.  It started going south around morning snack when I asked her if she wanted grapes, she said yes and then screamed at me for getting [...]

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Singing

I have mentioned that Blitzen is a very creative and imaginative kid.  In addition to loving visual art activities and imaginary play, she writes songs.  And then sings and sings and sings.  The songs tend to be sad or mad – someone is always leaving, lying or both – but they are such great vehicles of [...]

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I love calls from school

Like when during third week with us, when Blitzen smashed heads with another kid on the playground and got a huge black eye and the nurse called me to interogate  discuss it with me. Or when the bus matron calls first thing in the morning (and I am talking 6:30am, people) to inform us that Johnny’s [...]

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Choosing a School

One of the reasons we want to build the FosterWee blog is to create a community that can share expertise with us.  (Carrie I and combine to possess expertise in the following: the 1982 St. Louis Cardinals, vampire novels and baking cookies.) We know we’ll need help figuring out NYC public schools.  Our future foster [...]

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What We Can Do

I’ll echo Carrie Ann’s shout out to the Save Our Schools activism.   It was inspiring to listen to old heroes (Debbie Meier, Jonathan Kozol) and voices who were new to me (John Kuhn, Matt Damon, Jose Vilson).  It was energizing to be around folks who are passionate about education and equity.  I got a kick [...]

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