Talking to the boys
Talking to the Boys It had been about eight months since we first decided that we wanted to foster. Since then, our lodger had moved out and, rather than jumping straight into fostering, we had deliberately decided to give ourselves a few months as a family of four. After having someone living with us for so long, we wanted some time to regroup, enjoy having the house to ourselves and have a bit of a break. One thing that was really important to us was that fostering wouldn't just be something that Kayley and I did, with the boys simply tagging along. We wanted it to be something that all four of us were part of. We didn't just want to be foster parents; we wanted to be a foster family. Of course, that meant Samuel and Bradley needed to be part of the decision too. One day, I was talking with one of the boys and asked him: "Who do you think we should have live with us next?" We'd always had lodgers of some sort, so it wasn't actually that strange a question fo...