Category: foster parenting
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From Disappointment to Hope: Trusting God’s Love
My son asked for some of my candy bar. I gave him a piece of it. He responded with. “I love you mom.” My question for him was, “Do you still love me when I say no?” See I’ve found his love to feel more than a bit conditional. I…
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Building Bonds: The Benefits of Contacting Birth Families
This post is for foster parents and/or adoptive parents who do have the option for birth family relationships. I know some adopted children are unfortunately not given any birth family information or option for contact. Children in those circumstances still need to be able to honor their lost family and…
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Essential Tips for Foster Parents on Court Days
As a foster parent, when I prepare for a day spent in family court this is what I do. First, let’s pack the bag. Included in this bag are: 1.) Snacks/food. First, I consider the child I am taking with me (usually a baby 0-2 years.) Second, I consider myself.…
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From Heartbreak to Happiness: My Foster Care Story
Just the other day: I was busy getting my youngest ready for a field trip to a local pumpkin patch. I was thinking only of getting our lunches together, and getting out the door on time. As I drove, it hit me. I’ve been to this pumpkin patch before. The…
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Dreamer.
When you think of dreamers do you think of people who don’t live in reality? Do you think of Joseph in the bible, having dreams, interpreting dreams, and being sold into slavery because of a dream? I wonder how many of us are dreamers, but no one knows because we…
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When will she walk out singing?
She took her time coming to the door. I heard voices, but couldn’t make out what they were saying. We wait. We push another button, maybe that’s the doorbell. We wait. I move to resort to knocking. Now, the door opens and the one I came to see is there!…
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Sound of Hope: The True Pain, but also the HOPE found on the road of Fostering and Adoption
My husband, my two oldest children (13, and 12 years old), my parents, my in-laws, a close friend, and myself went to the early release of this movie, in June. I don’t know what it would feel like to watch that movie not having walked the road we have walked,…
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Foster Care Insights: A Glimpse into a Child’s Life in Foster Care
I believe if more people saw what I saw, heard what I hear, and knew what I know, there would be more people racing to get certified to become foster parents. I believe that many of us live in our “bubble” (for lack of a better word,) and we just…
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The one who blesses others is abundantly blessed; those who help others are helped.
Proverbs 11:25 MSG This past year (2023) I would say we entered the year with a good amount weighing on us as a family. There were things we were facing as a family and individually. I don’t think many would have faulted us for saying, “We are focusing on us,…
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I am the Lord, who lives among the people.
I like to read my devotional or one year bible plan before I sit down and write. Today, I sat down with an idea of what I wanted to write about, and then I read a passage in Numbers. In this passage God was telling Moses where he was going…
The Road to You 