February 26, 2020100 February 26, 2020Celebrating Voices and Experiences Different than Your Own: A Quick Guide for Foster ParentsParable of the Brown Girl: The Sacred Lives of Girls of Color by Khristi Lauren Adams When you foster, you are likely welcoming into your family […]
January 6, 202040 January 6, 2020Love and Loss in Foster Care: What I Learned When We Said GoodbyeI Thought I Couldn’t Let Them Go and Then I Did I am Tonya: a wife to Charlie and a mother to Bailey and Brittany, now […]
September 27, 201972 September 27, 20195 Reasons We Also Need Foster Parents That Don’t Have Kids YetI have been a mother to twelve beautiful children. I have loved them fiercely and fully. I have laughed as they learned to talk and their […]
September 18, 201915 September 18, 2019Your Love and Empathy Can Change Lives: Interview with Jamie SandeferI loved Jamie Sandefer’s keepsake book, Love You from Right Here, so much that I wanted to learn how she was inspired to write it. Below […]
July 23, 201937 July 23, 2019I am a REAL momDon’t you want a child of your own? It will be so different. Permanent. Don’t you want to be real mom? You’re so good at it. […]
August 28, 201846 August 28, 2018Experiencing Others’ Judgement as a Foster FamilyAs much as I’d like to forget the hurt, the memory is etched into my mind. It was one of those moments that seem to come […]