I’ve never really talked about him. I guess I wanted to forget and deep inside I hoped that the passing of time would fade his story. He was in my home a shorter time than most of our foster children. He did not reunify with family, he was not adopted, he was not moved to another home. He died. He died,… Read More
Darren and I are heading back to Eastern Europe in June for “ONE MORE”! We believe that every child deserves family. The orphan crisis is overwhelming, unless you look at the “one”. So we will be returning to help families with their ‘one’. Not everyone is called to adopt an orphan, nor may be equipped to do so, but everyone is… Read More
WE cannot use a behaviorist approach when dealing with trauma. Let me tell you, I was skilled at it. As an educator, I knew how to use rewards and consequences to keep my students on task and engaged. I could move clips to green and red, and give stickers and treats. I prided myself that I never sent a student… Read More
I am a child. I have been through hard things. I am not bad. I am stressed out. I am anxious. I am scared. I cannot express with words how scared I am, I have to show you. From the diary of a child from a hard place… I woke up today and I am talking non-stop, and you keep… Read More
I liken the toddler years to dog years. One toddler year can feel like a lifetime. I’ve heard it said that the days are long and the years are short, well for Darren and I, we are rolling into our 16th year of raising toddlers and we are no longer just 42, we feel as though we are in our… Read More