Chase passion, not perfection
Tonight, my heart is overflowing with emotion. We're about two weeks away from our foster baby being reunited with his mom and my heart couldn't be happier for them. His mom has become like a sister to me and has become part of our family. My heart will ache for a time and will need ...
Our one-year-old foster baby is just learning how to walk. He's the cutest little thing, holding on to tables, chairs, and seat cushions as he tries to make his way around our family room. Tonight, I was on the floor trying to encourage him to come to me. Still feeling insecure in his ability to walk, he reached for ...
They had danced many times before. In fact, it was a regular occurrence for them. He'd wait patiently all day for her to walk through the door so they could dance. As soon as she'd come home, he'd begin to giggle and kick his tiny feet, in the hopes she'd understand the message he was ...
Tonight we had a wonderful evening with our foster baby and his mom. For those of you who may know how the foster system works, a story like ours is quite unusual. In the past, we typically treasured the anonymity that comes from not knowing the biological parents and them not knowing who we were. There's ...
In a recent post, I mentioned that our family had recently grown, as we had welcomed in a second foster child into our home. When we first received the call, our initial reaction wasView post
When our first two foster children (Little and Littlest as I nicknamed them), came to us over a year ago, I was sure my heart had reached it's capacity to love. They grabbed a hold of my heart, and to this day, a large part of my heart still belongs to them. Once they left us, months went ...