Goodbye 2025
In preparing my annual reflection, I reread last year’s post to review my 2025 goals and dreams. It’s honestly humorous looking back. In that post,…
Still Orphans
Faith and Foster Care
Tag: Christian
Grace Through Goodbye: A 30-Day Devotional Workbook for Grieving Foster Parents
For years, this blog has been the place where I’ve processed foster care in real time, the joys, the heartbreaks, the hard truths, the moments…
Chapter Closed
I closed another big chapter of my life this week. When our longest-term placements of four years left, it created a huge vacuum. Overnight, I…
A Reflection on 2024
We’ve come to the end of 2024. We wrapped up our most difficult placement at the beginning of the year. I’m not sure exactly what…
Y’all. I’m Back.
August. Brown is starting to dot my garden, and we’ve arrived at the bittersweet juncture of greenhouse clearances and fastly approaching chill. My birthday is…
Evaluating a Year of Absence
To recap as it’s been many months since I’ve written anything here, it’s been a year since we said goodbye to children we raised just…
A Week In Reverse
Foster care is a series of building walls, bargaining, and small concessions. It’s been four months of absence after nearly four years of raising the…
Harriet Tubman and a Month of Absence
It’s been a month since the kids left, and I don’t have words to express the heartache I’ve succumbed to. Every day I struggle to…
One Week After Goodbye
It’s been a week. I was right in the middle of my textbook stress and grieving process when it hit like an anvil. For whatever…
