When people find out I am a foster parent, the number one response I get is, “I could never do that. I would love them too much and I would die if they were taken from me. How can you possibly do that?” To be honest, I feel the exact same way. Every time a […]
Mama Bear
Last Thursday, the most beautiful 6 week old baby girl was delivered to our home. She has fair skin, dark blue eyes, and dark brown hair that sticks straight in the air. The boys took one look at her and nicknamed her “Rockstar”. She is perfection. By far, our easiest shelter baby yet. When we […]
Not What I Wanted to Hear
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 […]
