This past couple weeks have been crazy! And I’m sure our lives will continue to get even more crazy. On Tuesday this week we finished our last in person foster care training, and yesterday we had our home safety audit. A home safety audit, for those that don’t know, is when one of the foster care representatives comes to your home and makes sure your home meets all of their codes, policies and procedures (ex. Bed and dresser for each child, fire extinguisher on each floor, smoke alarms, chemicals locked up, etc.). We were very nervous about it because throughout the process we have been preparing our home for this, making sure everything was in it’s place. I’m so happy to say that our home passed it’s safety audit!!
Since we’re done with training, and our safety audit is done, we have a few more pieces of paperwork that we’ll be handing in on Monday, and then we are just waiting on my background check to come in, George’s already did (but they turned mine in way later but hopefully will be back in a couple weeks or less), and then we will be certified foster parents!!
We are approved to have up to 6 foster kids in our home (we have two bunk beds and two cribs), so our lives are about to get even more crazy (like I said). The next step for us while we’re waiting is van shopping, cause you can’t pack 6 kids and two adults in a tiny car meant for 4 or 5 people. We’re going to go looking today and hopefully we find something realiable but also in our price range.
While we are waiting to get certified and have foster care placements we are still continuing to make our home feel welcoming to the children placed in our care as we put together our downstairs playroom, and figure out the structure for our home (ex. House rules, and routines) which is very important for foster children.
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