I'd like to meet these people who bring very scared and very sad little children into their homes at all hours of the day and night. For the quite awesome rate of $0.79 an hour, they pour themselves tirelessly into little souls that very well may go back into the hot messes they just came out of. Social workers, family visits, disrupted sleep.
Hey! If I worked at McDonald's, I wouldn't get to see what meth does to a person's teeth over a period of months! It literally turns them into little stubs! I want to see some sort of time lapse of the process on Youtube.
If you're doing foster care "right", that money goes toward taking care of the child. Clothes, food, warmth for his or her room, gas to go here and there.
I guess I haven't met the people who "do it for the money".
I also haven't met the woman who throws the kids in the basement and collects the monthly check:
We have a little foster baby for a few days. She is SO sweet!
Think of George Jefferson, only as a baby. And a girl. Same pattern of baldness though.
It's awesome.
In other news, after I ate Lucy's cupcake I woke her up in the morning with the news that the cupcake had too much sugar. I made a peace offering of some M & M's.
Tune in next time, when I tell her she's getting a puppy for Valentine's Day and give her some pencils instead.
5 comments:
WOW! You are getting the big bucks! I only get 58.3334 cents an hour...I have to sit on my hands when people imply I am in it for the money.
That is funny, pencils?
a sweet little baby girl? oh to give her a cuddle ... you can do that for me. I hope for her she gets somewhere stable and stays there.
Very interesting. I HAVE heard people say that.
Enjoy the extra girl for the week! Have fun.
I'm sad to say that I have known two such families. They didn't take in the little tender hearts...they took in teenagers that had a hard time finding placements...and used them as cleaners, cooks, and sometimes even babysitters. I'm just so thankful that they are the rare circumstance!!!
Enjoy an extra set of pink fingers and toes this week!! =) I'm sure she will soak up LOTS of love in the Hillestead house!! Happy Valentine's Day!
someone recently said to me that they heard doing foster care was "good money" I thought "are you kidding me?!?" Thank you for being foster parents!
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