This summer has just been crazy. We’re doing stuff throughout the week, we’re doing stuff on weekends, etc. So today, with the exception of just one quick errand, I am not leaving this house. In fact, when I get back from my errand, I’m going to change into my pajamas, put some Manic Panic into my hair (I need to touch up the pink – it’s a little faded at the temples and above my neck from so many pool days) and lay around working on a new design for In My Bag and watching House M.D. That’s what a Saturday is supposed to look like. 
I meant to do this stuff yesterday morning and afternoon, but I spent the day filling out paperwork, making phone calls, and sending emails — all stuff related to health insurance, Puff, autism things, and school enrollment.
I then figured I’d get it done yesterday evening, but Dan needed a prescription refilled, and we’ve been meaning to get everything transferred over to Target’s pharmacy (since we’re there all of the time; it doesn’t make sense to continue using the pharmacy where my mom had my brother’s prescriptions filled, as it’s 13 miles northwest from where we live and we hardly ever have a reason to be in that area), so Ryan and I went over to Target after Dan got home from work. A brief pit-stop was made at a local bank (not one we bank at) after I checked our mailbox and found that our first monthly foster care stipend arrived. It was a small amount, since the “payroll”, so to speak, runs from month to month and Puff had only been with us ten days as of the date the “payroll” was closed, but hey, when you’re in between paychecks, every little bit can definitely be counted as a nice bonus. (Disclaimer-so-people-don’t-get-the-wrong-idea: I love my brother dearly and would have taken him in no matter what, but I’m not going to turn down money offered as part of a formal foster parent agreement! Teenagers aren’t free to clothe and feed and send to school, you know.)
I then figured I’d do it all last night, after dinner and after the kids were all situated in their rooms, but then I got tired. I managed a shower and an episode of House M.D., and I caught up on some emails, but then I was too tired to worry about anything else, so off to bed I went.
Here’s to hoping today is a more “productive” — but not too busy — Saturday.
Good luck getting things done while relaxing and not running ’round like a headless chicken lol
If anyone ever judges you for that they suck. It’s for you to take care of a child that his own parents are not taking care. Is it right the state has to foot the bill? No. BUT Jenn sure does not need to foot the bill either. Foster or Kinship is not meant to be a burden on a family which could cause them to not be cared for like a proper family should. I know you would have taken him, but he is probably like a hoover since he’s a teen and he maybe has meds too and like you said every bit helps!