Hope Foster Home Day 2 adventure

Today we slept until 7:30am even though it is stiffling hot in our room we are becoming used to it for sleeping. We each have a fan at the foot of our bed. We got up and went to have some breakfast as I had bought corn pops, raisin bread and yogurt at the western store Robin and Joyce took us to on Sunday.

We followed our breakfast by starting to head to each of the three playrooms. That is what MacLean and I love to do. We spent time in each of the rooms and MacLean is a hot commodity with all the kids hitting each other and fighting over her. The children are well cared for and have lots of toys. They enjoy being picked up and played with. We have our pick of so many babies it is hard to give our attention to them all. After about half an hour we moved onto another playroom and just enjoyed the same kind of thing. some of the more physically involved children and those with disabilities are the ones I tend to go to first, finding toys to play with them or just play round and round the garden. Today we played ring a ring a rosie with a few of the boys. They laughed and giggled like crazy.

We found ourselves up at the playroom at 9:45 to set up for our 6 kids coming at 10am. Most of the nannies drop off the kids and they are fine with us. When the kids saw it was us they came running to do stickers, blocks and macLean did her bubble time which they all loved.

After lunch we were treated to an afternoon at a resort countryclub with a wonderful woman named Annalee. She takes a small group of kids every few months out to different spots. Today we took 4 boys all around 2 years old, 2 nannies, Rose who works here and speaks english, Annie an old volunteer who was visiting, Katie MacLean and I. we went to her countryclub and swam in the pool, ate snacks by the poolside and then she treated us all to KFC. It was a wonderful afternoon. We didn't get home until after 7pm. What a treat that was for us all and we thank her for taking us along.


Day 2 is gone already and we are in a groove. Many of the kids already recognize us and say hello to us in English if we prompt them. This is a wonderful experience and we are learning so much about how the children move from here to surgeries, or long term palliative care and then hopefully put on a list for adoption. we have a couple of boys leaving in the next few weeks who are all being adopted. Very cool to see this happen.

Anyway, MacLean is over cooking with katie and her dad and i am going to finish here and then watch a bit of a movie before I collect her. It is nice to have a bit of alone time. I did laundry last night and hung it out and today MacLean headed off on her own into the playrooms so that is good that she is feeling comfortable. All the nannies keep asking if I am mama. It is so cute.

Enjoy our pictures.
Shauna and MacLean xo
P.S. Someone asked about the yurts. They are used for overflow volunteers ...there is a sleeping yurt, washroom yurt and a common room yurt. They are empty right now but Joyce said they are often filled.