It has been pretty amazing these last couple of days. As bizarre as that sounds even to me. To see and feel and remember how many people care about family has been so refreshing. To know with real confidence that we could call out for just about anything and we would have eager friends come to us. Its incredible. The offers for childcare. For food. For rides. All the open doors. All the lifelines. While our faith is in God and God alone, it is a beautiful gift to have a loving community of people come around us as well 💜 So thank you.
Currently, we have childcare worked out for surgery day and a couple of days following that. Thats the end of school. I have no idea when I’ll be at the hospital in those recovery days, but we organized childcare for those full days, just in case. Hopefully the recovery is very similar to Brady’s last brain surgery, where he only stayed in hospital for two ish days. But the days to follow were VERY quiet and sleepy. Last time, Brady had a lot more mobility and independence, and this time is different. So we’ll see whats to come.
IF you are someone who wants to offer to help with childcare, there are steps, so you have to actually want to 🤣
IF you want to, I need your full name and number, and date of birth. A very recent (not just current, but recent) record check. And then you need to sign a declaration from the ministry, which I have a copy of and can send to anyone. But as you can see, its fussy. That also only gives you permission to babysit at my house or places like the park.
To have kids in your house is a different system. Not huge and difficult per se, but time consuming and a little invasive. They will need to approve your house, and the bulk of that will be requiring gates, possibly door handle covers, and to make sure meds and chemicals are baby proofed or out of reach. Not much else. Just a little fussy.
There is no pressure for these things, but I wanted to put the steps out there as people have offered to babysit and unfortunately its not quite so simple. One of the hardest parts of fostering, honestly.
But. For the time being, child care is managed for the biggest days. We have a meal train set up for the first week ish with the promise of more to come. We just need to wait and see how recovery goes.
Thank you, all, for coming around us in all the different ways 💜 We see your efforts and we really appreciate them.
Off to Kinasao this afternoon! ☀️