Got a new girl today. We'll call her The Cheerleader. She is 16 but will turn 17 tomorrow. Yes, she gets to spend her 17th birthday in court chillin' with the foster care crowd. Great fun!
I was told she came into care because the people she was living with could no longer afford her medical care (Fibrous Dysplasia), but then it was mentioned that they dropped her off at CPS because of her anger issues. We've spent the afternoon getting to know one another and I've been listening to her go on and on about all the places she has lived and with whom and of course listening to how horrible each one was. Meanwhile she was texting the people who just disrupted. She likes attention, is jealous of others, doesn't share the whole story but leaves it skewed just a tad, and is basically a normal teenager. Best of all, she cheers at my old stomping grounds.
72 hour hearing tomorrow and I'm going to miss it as BabyBoy has an appointment at the same time. Fortunately her intake worker will be there and is going to take her out for lunch and some fun afterwards in order to celebrate her birthday. I have not been able to get away from home without the kids, so I don't have her a present. She just came here at 4:30pm and while I now know her favorite color, her type of guy, her true hair color, and the genre of book she prefers to read, I still don't know what to purchase for her. I'm thinking a gift card to Rue21 as she mentioned that being her favorite store. I do have pink streamers and white balloons hanging from the ceiling and a small bag of toiletries on the table, it's all I could do at the last minute. Tomorrow I'll order her a cake and buy a real gift. Then I figure she'll go out with her friends for a few hours and that will help. Can't wait to see if she makes curfew.
2 comments:
so, super-foster-mom, is there any placement you don't take?? interested to hear how it goes, wishing you lots of good luck!
LOL Yes, there are placements that I don't feel equipped to handle. RAD, ODD, and severe medical issues are some that I don't take.
This 17 year old girl is not the same one from the previous days post. I said no to that placement and am glad that I did.
So far, so good. She really is a normal teenager, complete with angst and dating all that good stuff. Her medical condition sounds scarier than it is. Hers is very mild.
Do you still have the baby? I need to click on over and read, huh.
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