February 5, 202041 February 5, 2020How Foster Care Created Our CommunityI look back at the life we lived before foster care and I almost don’t recognize it. I am so grateful for so many of the […]
December 1, 201978 December 1, 2019A Season of Gratitude: What Foster Care Has Taught Me About Small Acts of KindnessWe are smack dab in the middle of the holiday season. Thanksgiving has just passed and Christmas decorations dominate every store. There is something about this […]
November 4, 201995 November 4, 2019A Lot of Holes Left Empty: Being a Teen in Foster CareJolli entered foster care as a teen and her whole life changed. She was separated from the only world that she had ever known. She felt […]
August 7, 201927 August 7, 2019A Letter to Foster Parents from a Mom After ReunificationI am a (bio) mom. I lost my kid to the foster care system. It was heartbreaking and terrible. Here’s what I want all foster parents […]
July 9, 201997 July 9, 2019Who Else Is Waiting For Fostering to Get Easier?So often when we talk about “the system,” we don’t have good things to say. We call it broken and failing and maybe we’ve even called […]
April 11, 201719 April 11, 2017How Fostering Impacted My ChildrenEarly on, one of the concerns that weighed on us (as well as others close to us) was how becoming a foster family would affect our […]