Any Parents Working Weekends Only?

[Purple_Scrubs]

I am a new foster parent of a baby boy and would like to take in more foster kids, but with hubby and I both working M-F (I'm a school nurse), daycare would kill us. Not to mention we need to be available to bring the kids to their various appointments and family visits. I was thinking about applying for weekend only positions at local Urgent Care centers after this school year is over. So I would be home all week with the kiddos and hubby would be home with them on the weekends.

Are any families doing this and making it work? I imagine it would stink not to have any entire days off together with my hubby, but he has a flexible schedule and gets home pretty early in the evening most days, so we would have some time together. Anyone have experience with this kind of schedule?

[Purple_Scrubs, BSN, RN]

I dunno where you guys do visits, but I actually work with an agency/in it that contracts with our arm of DCFS to host visits. Generally, if needed, they can try and lump the visit times together with multiple children so that the foster parents only have to come in when absolutely necessary.

It's a heartbreaking field...I supervise the visits between parents and children in foster care. One of the families I know somewhat well, foster parent is hoping to adopt. Well, due to bio parent not making progress, social worker is looking at termination over reunification.

It's a hard road, having the kid for so long and not knowing at all if you'll actually be able to adopt. If you have any questions, let me know. :)

I figured they would work with us if the kids we get are from the same county as the one we have, but we are accepting kids from multiple counties. We live in a rural area, so we can easily get to visits in the surrounding rural counties as well as the "big city" that is near us. But, if we have kids from opposite ends of the area, it gets fuzzy :-)

It is definitely heartbreaking. We had a failed pre-adoptive placement over the summer and that was hard. With the baby we have now we are totally in love with him, and would love to adopt him, but we are also supporting the goal of reunification because ultimately if it is safe for him, he should be with his parents and siblings. It will be so hard for us if/when he goes home, but I can be at peace with it :)