This is fostering 🙌
Award winning author of the best selling series Thrown Away Children. Artist, illustrator, foster carer, CEO of Sparksisterhood.org BA, MA, MSc (I grew-up in care) contact thespeakersagency.com
I'm cleaning the cooker again. Third time today. I've tidied the kitchen, every time I go in I tidy it and forget what I actually went in for. The dish washer has done four loads and the washing machine is on load five. It's half term and I live with teenagers. A blend of birth and fostered and now that they're older boyfriends and girlfriends too. Everytime I go to the fridge the butter has gone, the cheese is no longer there and I only got it this morning. It feels like I'm living with locusts and raccoons. But, I could not be happier, I love their company, their funny chatter and singing. I love their energy and best of all I know that they are safe and are capable of preparing meals and weird biscuits. I need to teach them again the art of clearing up. Our children are only with us for a short time, some of mine have already left. I treasure every minute because a messy kitchen and no eggs or bread left for breakfast is nothing in the scheme if things. Treasure our teenagers!