This quarantine started with tears for me. Grief over what I sensed instinctively was coming, particularly for my high school senior. Wor...

When we began fostering, I thought that every child that entered our home would stay forever. We got into this to expand our family, and w...

This past year, in a hard and painful but right-for-right-now decision, we let our license as a foster care home expire. We spent the who...

I’ve heard and seen most of the anecdotes and memes the internet has to offer regarding this particular topic. Ones like this: “I followe...

On a June evening, five years ago, we sat in an ER room with our youngest, just a year old, and we were not certain she was actually goin...

Advent is my favorite season of the year. Not Christmas. Advent: those four Sundays preceding Christmas. Advent comes from the Latin word...

I’ve always been a words girl - taping index cards of poetry and verses and phrases up all over my house. Most of my wall-hangings have w...

Being licensed foster parents for ten years and adoptive parents for eight of those years has taught us a few things. We frequently get a...

So you’re like, just a stay-at-home mom? It wasn’t the first time I’d gotten that question, and it won’t be the last, I’m sure. Truth be ...

On a winter’s day this year, I logged on to my computer to check my eldest daughter’s recent team roster to see if I remembered any of th...

My oldest daughter, due to a variety of known and as of yet unknown issues, has been recommended for a root canal. Our dentist pled incap...

Ten years ago, I opened this space with the intent of making it a record of the time we spent in the world of foster care. I called it Ex...