Family Tree Poster - with Hands!

Hey All! Happy Friday! We've had a busy week here, getting used to being parents to our two crazy little boys. If you want to read some more about our foster care journey, you can check out our other blog, let's [foster] love.

Anyway, I wanted to make something visual to help the boys learn about their family (most of whom live in another state). So, we made a family tree with our hand prints!

For this project we used:
Poster Board
Colored Copy Paper (or construction paper)
Scissors
Markers and Crayons

I traced all of our hand prints (even a few of Handy Andy's Dad's), cut them out, and wrote all of our family's names on them. Then I drew two trees, so the boys could learn both of our families. The trees come together where Handy Andy and I are (I'm also adding hands for the boys, but I can't share their names on here, so I left them off for the picture). Over the weekend we will start to add pictures of everyone so they can learn their names and faces.

Hopefully, this will help the boys get to know our families, even if they can't meet them all right away! They are really excited about all their cousins. :)

Thanks for stopping by! 

Come back tomorrow for the Pinteresting Link Party!

Tuesday Treasures - Foster Podcast

Hey All! How was your Thanksgiving? Ours was great! We spent time with family and friends, ate lots of food, took lots of naps...and my mom threw me a shower to help us get ready for our future foster kids! It was so great to be so supported by friends and family.

On that note is this week's Tuesday Treasure: FosterPodcast.com. 

Handy Andy and found this foster parenting podcast a few weeks ago, and a we've been powering through the episodes. They are so good, and provide a lot of helpful information and personal experiences!

If you are a foster parent or interested in foster care or adoption at all...or just curious as to what it's all about, I would recommend listening to a few episodes (or all of them). If you only listen to one episode, try one of the following: Episode 16, Episode 23, or Episode 50. There is also a lot of good information about different resources for parenting children with special needs. I hope you listen to at least one episode!

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great week!