My name is Jenn, and I'm a 27 year old married and babied chick. In addition to a husband, a seven year old daughter, and a five year old autistic son, I also have four cats, three hermit crabs, two frogs, a few fish, and one snorty little Pug. I work from home doing a variety of writing and even some web design. I love blogging, digital photography and web design.
Both of my brothers are in foster homes. Both foster parents seem to be dicks in terms of doing anything “extra” for the boys. We’re not asking for a lot, but my youngest brother has been in a foster family since last MARCH, and they’ve lied about having plans or just outright said no to our requests for him to be at a family get-together or birthday party. This is despite the involved agencies giving their OK to him attending, so long as transportation could be arranged. My mom and I both repeatedly offered to meet halfway (since the foster family is 50ish miles from us) or transport both ways. Fuckers.
Oh well. I’m so done with getting upset and furious over it, because what is the point? I’m just the adult sibling, I can’t do anything. It’s up to my mom, and she’s definitely done nicely at fucking things up several times. I’m doing my best to check out emotionally, because it’s too upsetting and infuriating to be emotionally involved.
But I must say that both foster families are taking care of my brothers. They’re being fed, taken to activities, being sent to school, going for check ups and so on and so forth. My youngest brother is having his meds checked on regularly, and my fourteen year old brother will hopefully get some much-needed acne treatment and treatment for some bowel problems that he is having. Not that my mom didn’t do any of those things (she did, minus the school part… hence why CPS got involved to begin with, back in 2007), but a lot of foster families barely do the bare minimum for their foster kids and still get away with it.
Gah. I’m so tired of this whole situation. I just want to shut them all out until it’s over with, and then go back to the way things were. Is that so bad?
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