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:D You are not alone at all, it seems like the "slow work on the spouse" seems to be the normal. And as I type, the baby is just starting to fuss and my darling wife just went to get him.

I will chime in here that all of our family have been over the top supportive as well. My parent's even make a point to drive over the day we get any placement and they are about 4 towns away. It's funny you think you may deprive them of the very thing depriving them of the stuff that gave us...

Oh... you mean something like my Dad's old 1981 Troy-Bilt Horse that I lovingly restored a few years ago? ;) Pretty, isn't it? I have a 32" dozer blade for it too! It's amazing tilling with a real machine and not the junk they sell now. Oh well... I will catch up on the banter tomorrow...

Another great trick is to stock pile clothes... We have those rubber-maid bins that we try to keep an assortment of boy's and girl's clothes in throughout the age range and sorted by gender and size. Like you said, they sometimes show up with just the clothes they are wearing! A few sizes of...

You know... I was dead against the whole notion of being a foster parent for a long time. Years in fact... I mean, I have my own kids and plenty of them! One day my wife said something to me that smacked me into place without a harsh word, just reflection. You see, we could use a bigger...

Yea...You know we do it because we hate shaving, right? Although, you can't tell in the photo, my head is fully shaved. I am playing pay-back for all that hair back in the 80's! I go back and forth from smooth bald to cut as short as I can get it because I am too lazy to shave it every other...

Woops, I just fixed it.... I love the way the photo came out. That was taken by my wife at a DCF Apple Fest that they put on for the kids and foster families at a farm here in Connecticut. That is my holding baby Michael btw... :cool: Even though we live in a rural area of Connecticut, we do...

NO!!!!! There is a huge need for Foster Parents and more so for teens and special needs. (BTW, special needs is not all the "serious cases" but things as minor as asthma can fall under that.) Babies tend to be placed easy because... well, shoot! They are so cute! However the older kids...

Well, my wife and I were licensed sometime around Nov of last year if my memory is right. In that time we had a 2 day old infant boy for a week. He had to go to the ER for de-tox and was placed in a adoptive home when he got out. (1st placement, trial by fire!) Then a darling 8 month boy with...

It's been a while scene the last time I posted up something. I have been canning a little bit here and there, but the bulk is done in the fall for us. Anyway, today netted just about 10 quarts of spaghetti sauce. The tomato's were grown from seed (Roma's) and the sauce is a pepper, onion &...

Well, I found a recipe for quart sized, large batch sauce (meatless) And I have a question... I do have some fresh herbs, pepper's, & onions in the sauce, and the one I found called for a 45min water bath.... I had forgotten about the veggies though! I did add 2tsp's of lemon juice per...

Well that's a start.... The quart size is kinda a must have. Counting our foster daughter, we are a family of 7 so pint's are kind of a joke. ;)

I need some help guys and ladies... I have planned ahead and now have a LOT of Roma's (well over a bushel right now ripe) and I need to make some spaghetti sauce. What I want is to can by the quart and if pressure canned, I can do 7 quarts. However, all I ever find is recipe's for like 7-9...

I would be VERY leery of canning the dumplin's They are very dense and you may not be able to properly prepare such a food with home canning. Keep in mind, we are not adding the chemicals that you would find on the back of a store bought can. Edit: I did find this, which may mean I am...

Hey all, long time no see! It's been a busy winter and we are just now gearing up for the growing season! (yea!) Anyway... I want to plant a patch of corn this season mostly to can plenty of what we grow, but also for eating what we can on the cob.I grew ton's as a child at home, but I have...

Wow.... Big Daddy, that is sure a lot of kids! How many did you have on average at a time? We are only doing one at a time (it's all we have room or energy for)

Yea, we had thought thru all those kind of issues when we thought about what age we wanted. The "no walking, no talking" age seemed to be the best fit. We have a friend that also Fosters and they have been blessed to have a wonderful batch of kids in all. They are in our church, and their...

Thanks, for the most part we are going the "easy route" as we are fostering three and under. However, you will find more medical issues than emotional. But we love babies and our kids are geting older (well... 14, 11, 10 & 6) But not babies anyway! ;) The harder part is friends and family...

well just a bump here... I had dropped me&thegals a PM a couple weeks ago, and things are now quite so I wanted to update. My wife and I did get out license a few weeks back and the same day had a 3 day old infant placed with us. Sadly, we only had him in our home for a week before he had to...

This is far from Self-Sufficient, but yesterday we ordered take out and there is a funny story too. First the story... My wife hands me a menu to pick out something, I see this special (someone's name, like "Brenda's Special") and it sounds good. I have her order that for me. So she calls...