Posted in Africa, Foster care on May 17th, 2010
You wonder how God decides who goes where? Why was I lucky enough to be born in the US instead of Africa? Why did He choose hardworking intelligent parents for me?
Since my first trip to Africa 4 years ago, I have wondered about the privilege of birthplace. Of course, since African people don’t know anything [...]
Posted in Foster care on Mar 2nd, 2010
I know it seems like I have dropped off the face of the blogging earth, or perhaps after my post about my new foster kids you thought I had finally lost my mind! My two new guys are doing better — they still have a long way to go, but they are adjusting! It’s tough [...]
Posted in Foster care on Feb 2nd, 2010
I really want to say “kicking my butt” but I thought that might bring an ugly comment from my mom—yet it describes what is happening at my house! We have 2 new foster children, ages 2 and 1—coming from no structure, no discipline, and no attachment–yeow!!! They have been here a month and they are [...]
Posted in Foster care on Mar 4th, 2009
The Rives household is doubling it’s fun these days!!! Monday we got another little baby girl from CPS. That makes 2 under 3 months–both, just about the same size! (5 pounders!) As close to twins as we’ll get! They are really sweet!
The sad part is that 2 moms are out there without the babies that [...]
Posted in Foster care on Feb 26th, 2009
My little “gran-dog” Chloe has always loved our little foster children. She likes to lay with them in their carseats, checks on them if they cry, and is very protective of them. We had to put her outside one time because she wouldn’t let one of the children’s guardian ad-litem come near him–she was protecting [...]
Posted in Foster care, Site News on Dec 15th, 2008
In the last two days I have had the privilege of seeing God’s goodness in action—yesterday Wray and I went to visit two of our special friends who were in our home as foster children. For years we prayed that God would give them a terrific forever family, and He came through in a big [...]
Posted in Foster care on Sep 17th, 2008
Sometimes you are a winner and sometimes not so much—yesterday was a bad day—I had to send my 2 little foster guys to a new home; one that was more capable of caring for them than me. Unfortunately, they had issues that I am not really equipped to handle — the hard part is knowing [...]
Posted in Foster care on Sep 12th, 2008
We have 2 new little foster guys. They are absolutely adorable. Unfortunately, they have been in a very unstable home—I’m not sure we’ll ever know all that these guys have seen. The 6 year old has some MAJOR issues—it makes me so sad that at 6, almost 7 he has so much anger, frustration and [...]
Posted in Foster care on Jul 16th, 2008
After being a foster parent for 15 years, there children that I wonder about. There are many that I am confident they are doing fine, but I’d be less than honest if I said I didn’t worry about alot of them. Most of the time I don’t hear about them after they leave my house, so all [...]
Posted in Foster care on Jun 10th, 2008
How does a four month old child end up in foster care with 2 broken femurs? We got a phone call tonight from CPS looking for placement for this child; unfortunately we are not taking any more children until I get back from Africa. Regardless as to whether this child is in my home or not— [...]