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Housekeeping

3/23/2015

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Welcome back to Taylor Talks!

Tonight's topic is housekeeping... no, not like having a maid come clean your house. That would be great though, wouldn't it? I'm sure that my mom would appreciate that! No, the housekeeping I'm referring to would be housekeeping notes; catching up and getting people all on the same page.
First, some housekeeping about the blog! I'd like to point out two new features of Taylor Talks that you can now find on the site. The first is a page of archived posts. If you put your mouse over the link for the Blog in the menu (or click on Blog if you're on a mobile device), you'll see a new sub-menu option for Archives. This will give you a monthly list of all previous posts for easy access. Also new to the site is a feature on the Home Page. On the top right of the Home Page is a new search bar. Use it for a quick way to search for key terms in blog posts and a search results page will pop out over the screen.

That being said, I'd like to move on to housekeeping when it comes to a foster care case. I think that I've briefly discussed caseworkers before, but I can't remember if I've mentioned their monthly visits to the foster home. Basically, their monthly home visits are just housekeeping; they fill the foster parents in on what they need to know about the case, and check in on how the child is doing in the home. Scheduling these monthly visits can be helpful, but a pain in the butt as well; you can find out a lot of information about the case, but you need to make sure that at least one foster parent and the foster child are home and that you can actually have a conversation. Picture that in my house! Except for in the freezing cold winter, my mom is always out and about with the kids, and when everyone is home, there's no possible way to have an entire conversation without being interrupted. My mom always tries to schedule those meetings for during the day when everyone else is at school... that's the only time there's remotely any peace and quiet around here!

I also wanted to take a minute to talk about my first day of student teaching in my second placement. It went really well! I'm very excited to be working in this classroom and to have more time teaching. I'm looking forward to seeing how different lesson plans for kindergarten are from the lesson plans I was making for fourth grade. Less than two months until graduation, so fingers are crossed that this placement goes well!

Last two little notes for tonight... there's still time to enter the drawing for the free e-book. It's a great picture book about foster care that I'm sure little ones would really enjoy. Just click on the link for details. I'm also still trying to build up my author fan page, so if you could head over to Facebook and give me a "like," I would really be thankful to you!

I’d greatly appreciate it if you would share this blog with friends and family through your favorite social media sites. If you’re sharing on Twitter, don’t forget to tag me (@TayTayK02) and use the hashtag #TaylorTalks.

Thanks!
Taylor

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    My family started doing foster care when I was three years old. We took in nineteen children over the course of eighteen years, with our last placement leaving in December 2014. I'm the only biological child in my family, though my parents adopted five of my siblings.

    I love to share my perspective on the foster care system and share how my unique upbringing shaped my life.

    I'm also a Cast Member at Walt Disney World and lover of all things Disney! My career allows me the opportunity to find a little bit of Magic in life every day.


    I enjoy sharing my journey as a writer as well. Find my children's books on Amazon and keep following my blog for updates on future books that I'll be releasing!

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