Ariel

I keep meaning to post the link to the agency we are getting certified through, Ariel Clinical Services. It just so happens that they are the first one in the Foster Care section of the phone book, and it turns out they are a small agency with a nice family feel.

http://www.arielcpa.org/

Getting down to the CORE of foster parenting

Mike and I have had something come up every.single.time. we were supposed to attend a CORE training class for the foster-adopt program. Illness, injury, and other plans have gotten in the way for two months now. I'm supposed to go to CORE training tomorrow and I have done something to my neck- I think I slept on it wrong- so I am debating whether or not to go again tomorrow. I could send Mike but then I would have to suffer through another day of "Mommy can't play, bend over or get up and down quickly" which doesn't seem fair to the kids.

And I am going first because Mike is chicken, bok bok bok. He says it's because if he goes first I will just grill him for details of the training and it will be like going through it twice, but I think it is because he needs me to go first because I am a classic firstborn and he is a classic middle.

I want to share our home with a daughter, so I want to move forward in this process, and thus I will probably suck it up and go tomorrow even if my neck is still hurting like it is today. I can always slap on a pain patch and take acetaminophen, ibuprofen *and* naproxen sodium...

I wonder what CORE stands for?