Tag: fostering
Foster Parenting Isolation: Life Behind Emoji Masks
It was summer when I really noticed it. The crushing sequestration of living our new normal seemingly in secret. That’s the crazy thing about...
Ice Cream for Breakfast: How Saying Yes Fosters Connection with Kids
When you boil it down, life comes down to a series of yes and no decisions. I cannot remember which study I was working...
Living In Between
They don’t have a name for it, really. This post-parenting feeling. Postpartum gets the closest in diagnosis:: anger, guilt, hopelessness, fatigue, fear. It comes...
Lessons in Raising Roses
Roses have been around since Ancient Greece and are associated with any number of emotions depending on the color or species, you could be...
Changing the Sheets
Less than an hour ago I held you for the last time. I felt your tears roll down my neck as you pressed your...
The Mess Behind the Mean Girl:: Dig a Little Deeper
Her name still makes my right eye twitch and the hair on my arms stand at attention. Theresa. Such a foul human being {I’m...
I’m Their Other Mother, but You’re Their Mom
An open letter to the mother of her foster children, from their "other" mother
I think of you often. I probably shouldn’t and I told...
An Open Letter of Love to Foster Grandparents
The road to adoption and foster care is paved with many players. Traveling the road solo is just not an option. Along the way,...
A Conversation with a Houston Foster Mom :: A Journey from...
In honor of National Adoption Month, Houston-based foster mother, Amber, shares her experience in her journey to adopt.
Describe your family before considering becoming a...
From Foster Care to Adoption :: How My Daughter Joined Our...
It took awhile for my family and me to figure out our place in the foster care world. We were newbies a year ago,...