Words & Insights From the Heart
December 14th. That is a date I’m sure I will never forget. It is the day we got the first call. My phone rang early afternoon and it was a caseworker informing me that she had a little girl for us. She told me all about her. She then asked if we would take her.
I am a person that needs to be an expert on a thing before actually engaging it. So, from the outset, it was an infuriating process. I fell for the PSAs…”You don’t have to be perfect to be a perfect parent!” I totally believed that it would be simple. I thought they needed foster parents?
Tomorrow (Sept 13) is my oldest daughter’s 22nd birthday. That means I have been part of her life for 12.54 years. She was 9 years 5 months and 16 days old when I met her for the first time. She and her 5-year-old (5 years 3 months and 19 days) full biological sister came into