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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 ...

Hi friends! At the end of last week, we were asked if we would be willing to take in a second foster child. I will probably share some of this story at some point, but for now, the most important part is that we now have two little ones we are fostering!  It's super exciting, but it's also ...