She’s been gone for a month. Not a day goes by that we don’t think about her. She left after just two weeks with us on her two week birthday. She was returned to the arms that failed to protect her. As the social worker was picking her up to return her home, she mentioned […]
A Family Grown, a Family Broken
I wrote this post a couple of months ago. I am one of the contributors for a women’s blog, and wrote this shortly after we signed our daughter’s adoption paperwork. Her adoption will be finalized Tuesday (!), so I thought it’d be fitting to repost it on here. A couple of days ago, we signed the […]
The Midnight Delivery
He was supposed to be delivered at 8. We raced home from a BBQ, speed-cleaned the house and bathed the kids. They were (as they always are when we get a new baby) giddy with excitement. We promised the kids that if they behaved, they could stay up until the new little guy arrived. 8 […]
The Unexpected Guest
We were supposed to be taking a week off from shelter care. We had back to back out of state trips planned, and we thought it would be best if we didn’t take a baby and then request to have to have it moved because we were going out of town. Then we heard the […]
Short stay in our home, but forever in our hearts
Big brown eyes and wild curly hair. He came to us straight from the hospital. Not because he had just been born, but because he had suffered injury at the hands of the woman that was supposed to love and care for him. He was just two months old and had more broken bones than […]
The Call
I had just finished cleaning up dinner. Keith was at his cross country practice, and the kids had asked to watch a movie before bed. I settled in to watch it with them when the phone rang. A number from Pomona that I didn’t recognize. “Is this Michelle?” The woman asked, when I answered yes, […]
