Gather round, little hens, and let me tell you a Bible story. A very long time ago, some people who wanted to follow God followed Him right into a terrible wilderness. They didn’t have…
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Imagine someone in your family is traveling abroad, and a terribly destructive, record-breaking earthquake happens in the city they’re visiting. You wait for some time until finally you get the phone call saying your…
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The day after the babies left, I did precisely nothing productive. I took Bootsy to the pool and when we came home, we dropped our things right in the middle of the kitchen floor and…
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They came as we were driving away. We had unloaded the babies and all of their things. We had gone over the foster care paperwork with the family. We had gotten hugs and kisses…
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I keep telling people I’m having like a thousand feels about the little ones leaving tomorrow. Excited they have good family to live with. Many kids are in foster care because they have NO…
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These sweet little foster babies that we’ve had since March 1 are leaving us on Wednesday to move in with some of their relatives. This is the answer we were waiting and hoping for…
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The “How It Feels to Say Goodbye” blogs were originally posts I wrote and then published on my personal Facebook page. Some people have told me they might be helpful to other people going through…
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One year ago today, I woke up in the morning and had breakfast for the first time with a little boy who now calls me “Momma”. I don’t remember what we talked about or…
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Eight months. That’s how long I’ve been the momma to a five-year-old boy, and ya know…I thought for sure I’d have everything figured out by now. {kidding} Recently, I’ve been mulling over some of…
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I love this question. It is almost always asked out of a place of genuine interest, and it allows me an opportunity to verbally process the strange situation we’ve put ourselves in and to…
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Hm…let’s see….what have I been up to lately? Re-organizing my crafts. Playing card games with Rod. Writing some songs. Watching Netflix. The usual. And, oh yeah. Adopting a child. {!} If you’ll…
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I am not pregnant. However, a lot of my friends are pregnant and having babies, so lately, I have been thinking about it a lot….a LOT. As of late, I have spent at least…