“I Couldn’t Do It, I’d Get Too Attached”

I hear this statement, “I couldn’t do it, I’d get too attached,” OFTEN. Wish I had a dollar (or ten) for every time I have heard that. It could fund my retail therapy at Target, Carters, and Amazon! Truthfully, I struggle with how to respond & sometimes I find it to be kind of offensive. […]

We Are A Family of 5 AGAIN!

Our lives forever changed, yet again, just about 24 days ago when we welcomed a 4 lb 5oz bundle of joy & sweetness to our family and into our home. We are back to a family of 5! If you read my last blog (Our 3rd Call.), the phone call for this baby girl came […]

Our 3rd Call.

Thursday our home officially “re-opened”. Friday afternoon, my phone rang. It was a number from “Georgetown” which is over an hour away. Seconds went by and ultimately I froze and let it go to voicemail. Pretty sure I did the same thing the last time we got “the call” (ha)… it is scary knowing your […]

It’s Time.

It’s been a bit. Almost 2 months since I last wrote. So why the gap in blogging? What have we been up to? Well… I needed some time. WE needed some time. We chose to put our home on HOLD for the past 9 weeks, much longer than I had originally planned for. I struggled […]

10 Ways To Help A Foster Family

This blog topic is one I have been wanting to write, but hadn’t yet, because I HATE asking for help when I need it (and thus didn’t want it to seem a plea for help for us specifically). Well, now that we have no extra kids… I feel like I can do it… I can […]

8 Months To Forever

Eight months. Eight months ago Saturday we said YES to a newborn baby girl ready to be released from the hospital and YES to her 16 month old brother (who was in a different foster home that did not accept newborns). I have vowed to be completely honest with you readers on this blog because, […]

LOSS

I lost my dad earlier this month. Just 2 days after his 60th birthday. I debated strongly as to whether I wanted to even share this (as it feels so intimate) or just move on with writing about our latest foster care happenings, but I decided it needed to be written about. For a couple […]