zz-pd

First I would like to welcome you to the board from Oregon. Now I want to say thank you for helping all those children, that is such a wonderful thing you are doing and may God bless you for it. There are very talented people on the board, just ask your question and someone will answer . Penny

watterstide

I was also a foster mom, had 5 foster kids,years back..

zz-pd

Hi Kim, I want to thank you for helping those children out, It makes such a big impacted on there lives, I did not do foster care, but I raised three extra boys because there parents where on drugs. they learned to follow rules and did wonderful in school. two of those boys returned to the same invierment and were lost to me. the third one the father quite doing drugs and that boy is just like my very own sons. I loved them all and made sure they all were in sports to keep them more centered and it is a great way to teach responsability. sorry I cant spell. God bless you. Penny

watterstide

i did it because someone took me in when i was "lost". so i felt i needed to pay it forward. one of my kids showed up on my door step when she was 25 years old..and thanked us! (she was the only teen i took in..and boy what a handful she was!)

Oklahoma Suzie

Hi and welcome from Oklahoma.

ICU_FOSTERMOM

Ee always hope that some of what we do for these kids will someday show them how much we cared for them.

We adopted JOE. He is 15 now....soooooo....You guessed it .It is not a lot of fun right now . He has a lot of bad baggage plus the '' oh so precious'' teenage years...lol

Our friends tell us....'' and You signed up for this .''

we pray alot....keep busy and keep hopeing.

thanks for the greeting....Alice

ICU_FOSTERMOM

My husband was adopted and so was I. He went with 2 siblings .
I was separated from my sister and we were raised apart from each other by family .

It does feel good that we are trying to help other kids find their way..

thanks for the greeting...Alice

zz-pd

yes they sure can be. Penny

ICU_FOSTERMOM

Hi Watterstide,

We can only has 2 in our home at one time . Because we do ''intensive care fostercare our numbers are limited .

Intensive foster care is for kids with bigger problems than most . They usually have really big issues . It takes a lot of training and mucho patience .

I think that a person has to lots of parenting skills to do this job .

Thanks for the greeting....Alice

ICU_FOSTERMOM

First I would like to welcome you to the board from Oregon. Now I want to say thank you for helping all those children, that is such a wonderful thing you are doing and may God bless you for it. There are very talented people on the board, just ask your question and someone will answer . Penny

Thanks for the greeting pennydoty. It is great to see these turn around and healing. We just hope that it sticks....Alice