Wise Thoughts From A Clever Foster – Adoptive Mom
A Foster- Adoptive Family Under Construction
The last few weeks our home has been in complete disarray as construction is taking place in several rooms, upsetting the rest of the house with belongings and furniture out of place along with buildi...
4 Initial Concerns About Foster Grandchildren
My husband and I were longing for grandchildren. Our son and his wife had been married for 7 years and daughter and her husband for 4 years. Finally in November 2008 Darren and Margie called saying th...
7 Considerations for Navigating Birth Family Relationships After Adoption
When we began fostering, our intention was always to help the kids placed in our home in whatever way we could, and our hope was to eventually adopt some children. Right now we are right about seven y...
Sticking With You ~ The Power of Music
As of tomorrow, June 6, 2015, all of our kids have been with us at least 6 years (6.5 for the younger two), and adoptions were finalized in 2011 and 2012. Most days can still be quite difficult as we ...
An Adoptive Mom Tackles Sibling Separation Issues
Recently our family was on a trip to Orlando, FL, and Darren and I ran into the grocery store to grab some breakfast food for our room while my mom stayed in the car with the kids. After we checked in...
How Finalizing Adoption for a Child is Like Having a Hysterectomy
Recently I was reading the book [To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care] by Cris Beam and read the lines “Adoption may be the explicit goal for foster kids with parents wh...