The Dining Room Table
I always wanted a large family. I imagined a grand dining room table with many hands passing food around it. I imagined laughter echoing down…
Still Orphans
Faith and Foster Care
Tag: foster care
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…
Burn Bright, 2023
The new year is approaching, and I’ve enjoyed a rather pensive past couple of weeks. New Year’s resolutions are notoriously abandoned within a couple of…
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…
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…
