Boy do I hear that all the time... I'm a social worker working with children in the states custody. I also work with their parents in hopes of reunifying. I do the family and individual therapy. I'm a professor. I teach budding social workers to allow their passion to guide their next steps in life. I'm currently and newly single which allows me to have a few hobbies. I have three rescue horses (one of which is just a baby), 4 dogs, a few chickens, two cats, and a handful of fish. I'm about to take in a few foster burros. Yup! You heard me right, I'm going to foster a Jenny and her colt starting next week. Here's the most exciting part of who I am. I am going to be a newly licensed foster parent any day now. I guarantee you I will be a blubbering mess the second I get the call to pick up my foster baby.
One of my students recently asked me why I live life the way I do. I truly believe being a social worker, you are born with certain qualities. One of them is the need to help and care for others. It's not necessarily a want, although sometimes it is. I truly think, helping for me is a need. I have to give back to a system that, frankly did nothing for me. I grew up watching my older siblings suffer terribly at the hands of my mother. Broken and battered children, in and out of public eyes and not one person did a damn thing for the 7 of us. I'm not bitter. I've forgiven. But I still have nightmares. Spending ten years in an environment like I did etched some things into my memory that I pray one day will go away. This has fueled my effort to be the change. I always wonder what my mother would be like if she got help. I cannot wait to be that person helping another mother learn to be a safe and loving mother.
I guess I started this blog because I was looking for a blog to read and connect to with other single foster parents. No such luck. I'm excited to start sharing my journey of fostering human and furry babies, teaching , and social working with y'all.
-K
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