The Moment I Realized Things Were Not The Way They Used To Be It wasn’t until I saw the selfie that I realized where we had arrived.
The Dental Side of Foster Care
Part 6 of Things I Wish I Knew Before We Started Fostering I know I’ve mentioned before about all the appointments and meetings that come along with saying “yes” to a child in foster care, but one of the harder…
Six, Seven, Eight, Nine…How We Raise Bio and Foster Kids Together
Part 4 of Things I Wish I Knew Before We Started Fostering How I spent this summer wrangling bio and foster babies… 6, 7, 8 and 9. It is nearly biologically impossible to have this amount of children in this…
Tell Yourself to Set Aside Three Years of Your Life
Part 3 of Things I Wish I Knew Before We Started Fostering I sit here this evening telling myself this is a biased statement.
It can take a long time to find your “yes.”
Part 2 of Things I Wish I Knew Before We Started Fostering This morning while I was looking for photos to add to the piece I wrote on “Things I Wish I Knew Before We Started Fostering, Part 1, Adoption…
Adoption is free through foster care.
I will always remember the day I shared with Tim about the dream I had seen in my heart. I sat him down, shared with him what I saw, explained how I felt, and told him that this was what I felt we needed to do.
My Grandmother’s Gift To Me
July 8, 2019 Today would have been my Grandma’s 85th birthday. Her death just over four years ago was the heaviest grief I had ever encountered until that point in my life.
The Day That Mr. Angry Man Left Our Home
When it first started looking like Little Buddy was going to be staying with us long term, maybe even permanently, we called in the heavy hitters for help to keep our family together. We had made progress in many…
Smoke and Mirrors, and the Center Line that Actually Was
I had heard the expression “Smoke and Mirrors” many times in my life without thinking much about where the original phrase came from. If I think about it as a child, I imagine one of those Carnival Fun Houses, where…