FC Reflections: Sometimes I Forget I’m Human

Do you ever see me dressed all frumpy and think I should try harder? Do you ever hear me get short with my kids and think I could have done better? Do you ever see me missing from social engagements, show up late for meetings, sneak out early from gatherings, or just sit away from …

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Foster Care Reflections: 837 presents

Sometimes you have these great goals in mind to teach your children, ALL your children, about the meaning and the spirit of Christmas. You want to teach them about the joys of giving and not just receiving. You emphasize how it's not about the number of presents they will open Christmas morning, but about the …

Foster Care Reflections: Our Kind of Normal

Have you ever met those people who are soooo normal? Those people who are just so very relatable and normal that you think to yourself that they are what you want to be like? Yeah, we are not those people. I'm not sure we can be normal for more than 5 seconds and truth be …

Foster Care Reflections: The Joy of weakness

Dealing with varying degrees of disabilities and traumas can take its emotional toll on a momma. Especially after the holiday when you've been holding them all together because they have barely been holding on themselves. There is an ever-widening gap between the mom I thought I would be and the mom that I actually am. They …