Three months home! How’s she doing? Is she going to be okay? Is the emotional damage of two years in an orphanage and foster care going to be repairable? I breathe in these questions everyday. And I silently exhale the answer, No she’s not okay and she may never truly be okay. Today, in this moment, I’m parenting in the… Read More
I wanted to write a post about one of my biggest failures and learning moments while fostering. Not a very flattering post, but I want to always be real about the difficulties of this journey. It doesn’t help to pitch cupcakes and rainbows, when the reality is that most know that I can’t cook and we all know a storm… Read More
How are you doing this? Innocent question and I quickly laughed it off and made a funny comment about loads of caffeine and sleep deprivation. But later I thought about the question and I had nothing….good God, I didn’t know how we were doing this. Honestly, it kind of stopped me in my tracks, because 7 kids, full time job,… Read More
After a 20 hour journey and all the emotions one could possibly feel, I finally lifted her in my arms and carried her to the awaiting car. As I buckled her into the car seat, I felt relief…and sadness. I had just witnessed the painful parting of a child from a foster parent, and this time I was on the… Read More
I am going to pick her up in three weeks. All the months of phone calls and paperwork will have culminated into this final piece to bring her home. The anticipation, the fear, the excitement, the exhaustive work of international adoption will be flung from our backs and truly the real work will begin. And it’s surreal that our pickup… Read More
I’ve been messaged about Zorey, and asked about how we came to find this little one. The story actually starts two years ago. It starts when we picked up Israel in an orphanage in Eastern Europe and I met another family adopting from the same orphanage. This mother brought home a little boy, but she also brought home a horrifying… Read More