Category: foster care
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Attachment parenting & a confession
When I was pregnant with CJ, I read all about attachment parenting. Breastfeed your baby until they go to kindergarten! Wear them in a wrap on you at all times! Respond to every whimper and cry! I tried—my goodness did I try. The first major roadblock I ran into was that I could not, of […]
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Cece
Meet baby Cece! She is 5 pounds, 13 ounces of pure love. Let me back up to last Friday afternoon. I had just put the boys down for a nap when the social worker called. She gave me a few basic details: A baby girl in the NICU with nowhere to go. Going through some […]
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The love we choose
My oldest son grew in another woman’s womb for 26 weeks. He came into the world on a cold February afternoon, unbeknownst to me. He was ushered into the land of the living with needles, monitors, a feeding tube, and a ventilator. A week after his birth I got a phone call from the social […]
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Yes
What if they had said yes? I’ve wondered this hundreds of times since Kyeler came into our family. We were not the first family the social worker called about being his foster parents. Before us, she asked the family that was fostering (and has since adopted) his full sister and two half siblings. What if […]
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June 15
On the morning of June 15, 2020, I bounced out of bed (well, as much as a 6 months pregnant woman can “bounce”) and double checked that everything in the house was just right. The bassinet was set up in the guest room, the play mat was laid out on our living room floor, preemie […]
A Continual Feast 