April 15, 202024 April 15, 2020What to Expect When You’re Expecting (And Fostering!)My husband, Zach, and I began the process to become foster parents when our oldest son was only nine months old. We had been talking about […]
March 18, 202085 March 18, 2020Sharing Memories with Parents Makes Childhood Milestones That Much SweeterA few months ago, the sweet baby girl we are currently fostering took her first two steps. It was several weeks before her first birthday, and […]
March 18, 202067 March 18, 2020Fostering During These Unprecedented and Uncertain TimesLet me start by saying by the time I write this and it gets proofread and posted, it already will be out of date. Every aspect […]
February 25, 202041 February 25, 2020What Shared Parenting Actually Looks Like and How to Hold on To HopeWhen we first started fostering we knew we wanted to be a resource to the kids, but also their family. Shared parenting is a relationship between […]
January 22, 202049 January 22, 2020Foster Care in Your Own BackyardI heard once that if the world were a village of 100 people that only 30 would have enough to eat, only one would have a […]
January 15, 202045 January 15, 2020Open the Lines of Communication for Foster ParentsThe Role of the Foster Parent Liaison If you’ve been fostering for any time at all, you know that there are a lot of questions that […]
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 […]
November 26, 201912 November 26, 2019Can’t foster right now? There are plenty of other ways you can help children in foster care.I wanted to foster, but I was scared. Here’s what I did. The decision to foster is huge. And scary. And often slow. If you’re anything […]
November 14, 201957 November 14, 2019Crash Course in Parenting: 5 Suggestions for Fostering When You Don’t Have Biological KidsMy mom always told my sister and I that we were her dream job; she always dreamed of being a mom. From a young age she […]
October 10, 201926 October 10, 2019The Battle Against the Minivan: Fostering Won, and I LostI knew instantly that I would love Kristen Howerton when I read her bio, “In the spring of 2010, Kristen lost her long and passionate battle […]
October 6, 201981 October 6, 2019The 7 Adoption Doubts I Felt Too Guilty to Voice Until I Realized I Wasn’t AloneToday on #FosterFridayLive we are getting REAL about adopting from foster care with mama to many, Christina. She is going to share her personal story about […]
September 5, 20190 September 5, 2019Life in Limbo: an interactive workshop about living in foster care.Experience Life in Limbo® An interactive role-play workshop about what it’s like to be in foster care Have you ever wondered what it would be like […]