Jeanie
“Can’t you make an exception?” I asked, pinning the phone between my ear and my shoulder as I folded my laundry. “I know it’s been done before. You can allow a child to respite for a few days at an un-licensed caregiver’s house right?”
“Yes, it can be done, but you have to understand that space at the children’s home is also extremely limited. If Isaiah doesn’t take the bed that is available here and now, some other kid will, and then what? We won’t have anywhere to take him. We’d have to ship him to another children’s home outside of the county.”
I pinched the bridge of my nose. “Look, I told you, I’m willing to take him! I’m ready to go through the training and the licensing process, and all that. I just need a little time to find a bigger place! But until then, he can use my b
