It's been a week now since our foster baby has been gone, I still miss him terribly but I can now think of him fondly and with a smile without getting teary-eyed. We (my wife and I) spoke to our CAS worker and her supervisor and received some answers and apologies for being left in the dark through this process. We should have had a lot more to do with it, and a lot more involvement than we did. They didn't realize we were taking it so hard and have recommended some grief counselling, not sure if we will take it as we are doing better since we had it all out with them and had our say. They also realize now that we should have been part of all the meetings and had workers out to our home during the transition time for us to be able to talk to.
We are hoping to go up to ThunderBay in June to see him and his new home to help us with some closure, and we will be taking the summer off to recoup as a family and heal up before we start again. Foster care is a roller coaster ride of emotions, and takes a lot of work, but is so worth it in the lives of these little ones. We love them all so much as they come through our home.
Here's a shot of a building along the lake I did a family portrait shoot at. I think it conveys the lost, lonely feeling we get when we transition our foster children onward...
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