We finished our training tonight! Yay!

We had CPR/1st Aid tonight and are now done. Jarod hung in there as he was just diagnosed with an inner and outer ear infection along with high blood pressure. He has to go back in two weeks and recheck his blood pressure. This is not our month!!!!!!

Wendy will contact me next week and we’ll set up appointments for interviews and make sure I’ve gotten all the paperwork in. She does have to do some research to see if we’ll need to get a background check from WA. We’ve only been in MA a little over 2 years so I can understand why. I’m already on file in WA because of teaching so hopefully that makes it easier.

OH, when we showed up for CPR tonight we all had to wait a bit because they were having a meeting in the conference room. I had to run back down to get some papers I forgot in the car and on my way back I passed a Mom, son and a placement child in the hallway. He was a teenager and she was introducing her son to him. As they passed I realized what was going on and turned my head to take note and it was so sad to see him walking with his “new family” going to his “new home” and all he had was a small clear trash bag with maybe a change of clothes in it, that’s it! It’s heartbreaking to see these poor kids leaving what they know with nothing from what they knew except their memories. How HARD and SCARY!!

There were also two more little boys(placements) that were there with their Foster Mom, she was in the CPR class. Not sure if they were new placements or not but they were young, brothers that were under 4. Too cute but very connected with their Foster Mom, that was heart warming!