foster care adoption
Our Journey Part 5: Becoming Legally a Family of 6
In Our Journey Part 4, I talked about the period of time that seemed to stretch on and on between when our kids moved in and when they experienced permanency—in their cases, adoption. As I titled it, ...
Our Foster Care Journey Part 4: The Mucky and Uncertain Middle
Between November 2008 and June 2009, we went from a household of 2 adults to a family of 6 plus. I say “plus” because our home was inundated with a plethora of foster care caseworkers and ...
Our Journey Part 2: Our First Foster Placement
Call. Request. Reject. Repeat. One day while I was at work, I received a call from our licensing worker. She told me about two children who were in need of a new foster home. Because of their needs in...
Our Journey Part 1: Deciding to Foster and Adopt
Sometimes in life, we need to take a look back at what motivated us to make certain choices, like the choice of how to build a family. Our family wasn’t brought together through birth. So what&#...