April 5, 20215 April 5, 2021Saying Goodbye in Foster Care Doesn’t Get EasierI’m no stranger to goodbyes. We have had twenty kids come through our home through foster care in the last three years. Each of them we […]
November 18, 20201 November 18, 2020Put Your Brave On: Helping Children Say Goodbye to a Foster SiblingLike many grandparents, Rhonda was initially worried about the impact that foster care might have on her beloved granddaughter, Avery. When her daughter and son-in-law decided […]
July 6, 202052 July 6, 2020Saying Goodbye in Foster CareGone, Gone Last Tuesday was a day that we had been dreading for awhile. It was the day that Little Buddy, who had been with us […]
June 24, 202029 June 24, 2020Learning to Love in Uncertainty: Baby Steps into the UnknownYou can’t expect what’s coming. You can’t anticipate it. What you can know is that, when you follow with God, He’s going to put steps in […]
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 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 […]