The foster care placement office called us today. We agreed to take in three and a half year old twins tomorrow. Girls. This should be interesting.
They have older siblings being put in a separate placement. I think it's really sad that the kids in foster care are not only being separated from their parents, but sometimes families get broken up even further and siblings get separated from each other. We're only liscensed for two kids at a time-- they never even asked us to take the whole family of kids, since we wouldn't be allowed without an update to our license.
Our last foster kids had older siblings, too. "Dolly" was almost 2 years old and "Ethan" was 2 months old when they stayed with us. Having so many babies in our house at one time was rough. It lasted less than 3 weeks, as a relative agreed to take all of the kids. I think it's good that the kids got to live together again.
I'm really glad that we won't be making bottles or changing diapers for these twins. When Ethan and Dolly were here, between them and Elise I felt like I was on a constant feed-diaper-feed-diaper-feed-diaper treadmill, with a few baths and books and changes of clothing thrown in there. Three year olds are more self-sufficient. And you can have real conversations with them. I hope that taking care of the twins feels less monotonous.
I'll let you know how tomorrow goes!
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