The airport. It’s such a culmination of joy, tears, expectation, and hope. I stepped off that plane with the baby girl we had spent over a year working to bring home. Hours spent fundraising, praying and endlessly filling out paperwork to bring our daughter home. But there has been criticism too, of us – for adopting a child internationally, not domestically. For fundraising and bringing… 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
Do you have staff? How do you handle so many special needs? Are you exhausted? I received these questions recently and this post is going to share the nitty gritty of our home. A home that probably looks quite a bit like any other home….with 7,845 kids. A home with an often exhausted mama (because all mamas are tired), a… 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