Category: Adoption

Apart from choosing to maintain relationships with biological family, there was one other extremely important choice we made. It is definitely the most courageous choice we made in our journey. It was the choice to be completely truthful with our children. There is a lot at play in foster care situations. There are lots of

Another part of fostering that can certainly be complicated is that the children are local. Something we didn’t consider is, though the children are removed from the home, there is extended family to consider. Every case is different. In our case, there were both maternal and paternal extended family that wanted contact.      Before children

I told the girls that I had finally decided to write the story of how our family came to be. I invited each of them to chime in and share anything they wanted to share. Aliera was quick to the task. The following is what she had to say about the early days:      I

The part of foster care that no amount of training can prepare you for is how the relationships develop. We didn’t treat our girls as “foster” children. We treated them as “our” children. We took them everywhere. We played together. We just went on with life. We developed a relationship with them. It was just

I had a meeting with our case worker pretty soon after our first girl was moved. I don’t remember why. As with a lot of times in my life, my mouth running without my brain engaged changed the course of our lives forever. I had been thinking about our experience to that point. She asked