Five things I’ve learned from Life with Two Toddlers

Stop waiting Often times in life I have said things like, “first I’ll do_____, then I will do ______” Waiting in that sense is comfortable. One thing I learned through foster care is that life can change in an instant.  There literally may not be a tomorrow or a next week. Life is lived right…

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“Haters Gonna Hate”

Today, I posted one sentence on my facebook page.  “I have never felt so rejected as I do inside the walls of a church.  #satansucks”  I stand by those words. That is my truth.  In the hours after posting, many people reached out to me privately through social media and to my cell phone. Most…

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Six Things I Learned as a Foster Parent

We gave our notice about a month ago and are no longer licensed foster parents. While our journey around foster care and adoption is not over, it is taking a different path. I am certainly not an expert and I don’t have any easy answers. I do hope that some of our experiences in fostering…

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The God of my dorm room floor

College was awful.  Middle school was dreadful, high school was hard, but college for this socially awkward anxious introvert was just awful.  Don’t get me wrong. I had a great experience. I played soccer for three years and met pretty amazing friends along the way. I traveled to the other side of the world for…

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Thoughts with Koko-7/7/21

My anxiety comes in waves. Much of the time I am fine. I don’t feel anxious and my brain is at normal speeds. Other times, my brain is so fast and I feel so panicked about anything and everything. The unpredictable timing of each is very hard and sometimes quite overwhelming.  On the hardest days,…

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