We celebrate our kids a ton in our home. Adoption day, gotcha day, and my newly invented break even days are all celebrated along with birthdays of course. We recently celebrated Tripp’s “break even” day, which was the day the scales had tipped and he had been out of foster care longer than he was…
Read moreFive 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…
Read more“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…
Read moreSix 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…
Read moreThe 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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