Hey everyone,
It took us longer than we would have liked to get your podcast back up on itunes and put together a new episode, but we’ve finally done it. There was a lot to catch up on, so check out Episode 12 on itunes or search for us on podomatic!
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Making-a-difference/Change-Agent/2012/0403/Liz-Squibb-knows-how-to-help-foster-children-she-was-one-herself
Having trouble getting the player imbedded like I used to, so for now this will have to do. Or get the new episode on itunes!
Long overdue, here it is….
http://fostercareexperience.podomatic.com/entry/2011-12-18T19_48_52-08_00
Our Microphone set-up
I confess not podcasting since late October has been somewhat intentional. It’s been a rough couple of weeks since our last episode, due to a combination of factors. As a result, Mary and I have been making a very focused effort on taking care of the kids and each other. We rejoice in how much progress Leeland has made since joining our family but he remains very challenging, and the other boys each add their own mixture of highlights and difficulties on a daily basis.
A perfect example would be the other day, when in a moment of great frustration, Ezra (2 years old) yelled at Mary, “When I grow and and become a mommy or a daddy, I’M going to keep an eye on YOU!”
For anyone who questions if God has a sense of humor, consider that exhibit A.
Overall, we are hanging in there, and I was able to turn Veteran’s Day into a 4 day weekend which I think helped everyone in the family. We’re still excited about doing to podcast and sharing our foster parenting journey with you, so we apologize that it has recently been put on the back-burner. We’ve started talking about our next episode, so hopefully that will materialize soon, but in the mean time, we appreciate your patience!
Just uploaded Episode 9 to podomatic but can’t imbed it into this post (yet). As promised, we talk about Mary’s first experience with a foster child court hearing. Will embed the episode here tomorrow, but right now its time for bed! Should show up in itunes in a day or so as well.
Here’s a link to the article we reference during the episode:
But Mark is losing his voice! What’s funny is that it’s becoming an annual tradition for Mark to lose his voice around this time of year. 3 years ago it happened on the night of his 10 year high school reunion, and 2 years ago it happened the same day as a work dinner event. Last year it fortunately did not coincide with any major event.
We hope this will pass quickly so we can update everyone on how things are going with Leeland and what happened at the court hearing last week. For now, we’ll leave you with this link to an article about increased attention being given to foster children in our school systems:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-heimpel/foster-children-school_b_1014042.html
Long overdue, here it is….
