Rebecca
@fosterhood.bsky.social
Adoptee turned foster (now adoptive) parent working with, around and beyond the NYC foster care system- since 2008.
*Also a psychologist
👧🏻Clementine rocking an intellectual disability
💅🏾Kid #1 living her best Black life despite having a white mom
*Also a psychologist
👧🏻Clementine rocking an intellectual disability
💅🏾Kid #1 living her best Black life despite having a white mom
I just had a dream where ACS was trying to give me a newborn that they’ve had for a week & when I asked about formula type they said they only give her water & OJ. I had to find my pediatrician friend at a party to write a script for formula & another script that said NO WATER, NO ORANGE JUICE.
January 30, 2026 at 11:32 AM
I just had a dream where ACS was trying to give me a newborn that they’ve had for a week & when I asked about formula type they said they only give her water & OJ. I had to find my pediatrician friend at a party to write a script for formula & another script that said NO WATER, NO ORANGE JUICE.
Clem asked to be a boy for Halloween and asked to spend her money on “boy underwear” that she would “hide under my bed from my sister” and “just try it on.” Then she pulled up some boxers on Amazon and absolutely demanded I order them. I was all “Girls can wear boxers, it’s no big deal.” 🥸
January 26, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Clem asked to be a boy for Halloween and asked to spend her money on “boy underwear” that she would “hide under my bed from my sister” and “just try it on.” Then she pulled up some boxers on Amazon and absolutely demanded I order them. I was all “Girls can wear boxers, it’s no big deal.” 🥸
Just started watching #thepitt. Ep 3 and I’m horrified by how Dr. Robbie if offering up the social worker to all of the staff. Uhm, hospital mental health doesn’t treat staff for goodness sake. You’ve already referred most of the ED to her- staff need their own therapists! Boundaries, people. 😂😭
January 25, 2026 at 3:34 AM
Just started watching #thepitt. Ep 3 and I’m horrified by how Dr. Robbie if offering up the social worker to all of the staff. Uhm, hospital mental health doesn’t treat staff for goodness sake. You’ve already referred most of the ED to her- staff need their own therapists! Boundaries, people. 😂😭
Everytime one of these cases pops up I say there are dozens more out there. The homeschooling requirements are nil. NYC’s children’s constitutional right an education has been all but eliminated. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Bronx mom starved her twin sons, 14, shut them inside home for 9 years: DA
A Bronx mother was arrested for starving her twin teenage sons, who she kept “virtually housebound” inside her Riverdale apartment for 9 years, Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark announced Tuesday. ...
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January 24, 2026 at 2:39 AM
Everytime one of these cases pops up I say there are dozens more out there. The homeschooling requirements are nil. NYC’s children’s constitutional right an education has been all but eliminated. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
My email to Clem’s teacher following the DOE email detailing remote learning should there be a snow day:
January 22, 2026 at 5:00 PM
My email to Clem’s teacher following the DOE email detailing remote learning should there be a snow day:
Also, my (alleged) paternal cousins get Indigenous/Mexican matches which I’ve always suspiciously been missing despite my paternal grandmother being dark-skinned Mexican…I was adopted bc my white mom got knocked “by a Mexican”— or so I was told….
January 21, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Also, my (alleged) paternal cousins get Indigenous/Mexican matches which I’ve always suspiciously been missing despite my paternal grandmother being dark-skinned Mexican…I was adopted bc my white mom got knocked “by a Mexican”— or so I was told….
Sooo, turns out all of my (alleged) paternal cousin’s are on ancestry because our grandfather gave them all lots years ago. I’m not matching with any of them…
January 21, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Sooo, turns out all of my (alleged) paternal cousin’s are on ancestry because our grandfather gave them all lots years ago. I’m not matching with any of them…
So I continue my birth father question by hitting up a cousin who is my age and asking her to do a DNA test and not tell my alleged (highly anxious) birth father about it…
January 21, 2026 at 3:26 PM
So I continue my birth father question by hitting up a cousin who is my age and asking her to do a DNA test and not tell my alleged (highly anxious) birth father about it…
Read every sentence of this case. It matches the “farcical” incompetence & retaliation I’ve witnessed now for 2+ decades: nypost.com/2026/01/17/u...
Girl, 13, jumped off Brooklyn Bridge after years of NYC child-welfare officials failing her: suit
In a panicked bid to cover up its failures, the Administration for Children’s Services then allegedly backdated records and reports after the girl’s death, the traumatized family claime…
nypost.com
January 18, 2026 at 2:39 AM
Read every sentence of this case. It matches the “farcical” incompetence & retaliation I’ve witnessed now for 2+ decades: nypost.com/2026/01/17/u...
Andrew & Carrie’s granddaughter just said the 6 most magical words to Clementine:
“We have k-pop Demon Hunter Noodles.”
If you know, you know.
“We have k-pop Demon Hunter Noodles.”
If you know, you know.
January 17, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Andrew & Carrie’s granddaughter just said the 6 most magical words to Clementine:
“We have k-pop Demon Hunter Noodles.”
If you know, you know.
“We have k-pop Demon Hunter Noodles.”
If you know, you know.
From my 20% genetic match (half brother or uncle)-
January 16, 2026 at 11:58 PM
From my 20% genetic match (half brother or uncle)-
WHY does the purple travel pillow have to be called “Sexysamba?” 😅
It’s for a kid- and it was a weird email to receive this morning “Sexysamba has been shipped.”
It’s for a kid- and it was a weird email to receive this morning “Sexysamba has been shipped.”
January 16, 2026 at 11:34 AM
WHY does the purple travel pillow have to be called “Sexysamba?” 😅
It’s for a kid- and it was a weird email to receive this morning “Sexysamba has been shipped.”
It’s for a kid- and it was a weird email to receive this morning “Sexysamba has been shipped.”
K-pop Demon Hunters is more expensive than Taylor Swift and Beyoncé combined!
January 15, 2026 at 8:10 PM
K-pop Demon Hunters is more expensive than Taylor Swift and Beyoncé combined!
Clem just had Asia pull out her very last baby tooth. The girls are babies no more. 🥲
January 14, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Clem just had Asia pull out her very last baby tooth. The girls are babies no more. 🥲
What a time to be alive. Our parents & grandparents couldn’t have fathomed DNA revealing all their secrets. Never before in history and everyone going forward will know that paternity, maternity and lineage will eventually be known.
January 14, 2026 at 8:11 PM
What a time to be alive. Our parents & grandparents couldn’t have fathomed DNA revealing all their secrets. Never before in history and everyone going forward will know that paternity, maternity and lineage will eventually be known.
Next step in 2026 is of course ChatGPT…
January 14, 2026 at 2:30 AM
Next step in 2026 is of course ChatGPT…
Since I’ve paid for a higher level of ancestry.com I’m tracking my mother’s line— seeing we we know that one for sure. But then up came Prussia which I assumed was Russia and I almost threw-out the whole lineage until I googled Prussia. 🙄 Nice to know my German relatives came over before WWII…
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January 13, 2026 at 2:59 AM
Since I’ve paid for a higher level of ancestry.com I’m tracking my mother’s line— seeing we we know that one for sure. But then up came Prussia which I assumed was Russia and I almost threw-out the whole lineage until I googled Prussia. 🙄 Nice to know my German relatives came over before WWII…
So my birth mother completely denies another possibility for my birth father. BUT, she said she moved from NJ to FL in Nov 1975 and I was born full-term May 1976- so the person I’ve known as my father didn’t meet her until Nov 1975. It’s not adding up. This other family is only 20 miles away in NJ..
January 12, 2026 at 12:45 AM
So my birth mother completely denies another possibility for my birth father. BUT, she said she moved from NJ to FL in Nov 1975 and I was born full-term May 1976- so the person I’ve known as my father didn’t meet her until Nov 1975. It’s not adding up. This other family is only 20 miles away in NJ..
It barely worked. The driver’s text messaging didn’t work, he didn’t speak English, I had to read Spanish off Google translate & he finally just handed his phone to her and we all had a big laugh. (And I tipped the driver well, don’t worry)
Just DoorDashed my bio mother a bottle of wine with a message to CALL ME.
January 11, 2026 at 11:31 PM
It barely worked. The driver’s text messaging didn’t work, he didn’t speak English, I had to read Spanish off Google translate & he finally just handed his phone to her and we all had a big laugh. (And I tipped the driver well, don’t worry)
Just DoorDashed my bio mother a bottle of wine with a message to CALL ME.
January 11, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Just DoorDashed my bio mother a bottle of wine with a message to CALL ME.
And of course after 25 yrs of the same phone number, my birth mom seems to have changed her and it’s going to take a few days of back channels to get ahold of her for my Mama Mia questions…
January 11, 2026 at 1:27 AM
And of course after 25 yrs of the same phone number, my birth mom seems to have changed her and it’s going to take a few days of back channels to get ahold of her for my Mama Mia questions…
I’m in deep now. I’m reading obituaries and although the cousins/aunts talking to me are in the Midwest, the potential paternal grandmother is from the same place as my birth mom. And one of the sons lives in FL…..
January 10, 2026 at 7:10 PM
I’m in deep now. I’m reading obituaries and although the cousins/aunts talking to me are in the Midwest, the potential paternal grandmother is from the same place as my birth mom. And one of the sons lives in FL…..
My girls are playing guess mommy’s birth father:
January 10, 2026 at 6:17 PM
My girls are playing guess mommy’s birth father:
A lady reached out, probably my aunt? Especially since she has 3 brothers 👀
January 10, 2026 at 5:19 PM
A lady reached out, probably my aunt? Especially since she has 3 brothers 👀