What am I learning about Facebook?

I am learning that people really like the opportunity to communicate about many things at all times of the day. In the past few days, I have witnessed or commented on the following:

Youth asking others to come and volunteer unload pumpkins at our pumpkin patch
Someone else at the pumpkin unloading saw my post with [...]

Losing a foster child can be hard

Over the weekend my wife and I attended a renewal course for one of our yearly foster parenting courses.  Fortunately for us, we have done this one a few times so we expected to get out early.  Unfortunately, TX DOT was doing road construction on the highway and we ended up being a half hour [...]

Kids and Stickers

As I mentioned yesterday, my wife has been having problems with our foster children.  Thankfully, they listen to me much better.  Of course, that also frustrates her.
However, today we discovered a possible way to get them to daycare each morning without it turning into a shouting match – stickers.  If you have a child these [...]

Foster Parenting

I have not mentioned it often on this site, but my wife and I are foster parents. After being married a couple of years, we decided to start a family. So, we decided to become licensed foster parents. It has been over two (2) years now and we are on our second [...]

[Updated] And now, a break in our programming

My wife and I have been foster parents for the last few years. We have had foster children that lived with us for a time and now are reunited with their birth family. However, the current set of children (one of each) were sent to us with express intent of adoption. We [...]