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: goodbye
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…
Goodbyes Suck
We’ve had a child for the better part of a year. I haven’t written a single thing about the beginning or the middle, but I…
Fools Rush In
We’re coming up on two years since our foster children left. I hadn’t thought about it until today when I started wondering why I’ve felt…
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…
