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487 days. By the time the tentative move out date on our calendar arrives, that is the number of days my big kids will have spent in our home. A blink of an eye, and an eternity. We only have 37 days left. We knew this day would come eventually. When we agreed to this […]

Hi all. I’ve been absent lately. I wish I had a better excuse, but I don’t. We are busy, foster care is hard and sometimes I just don’t know what to say about it. Things here are mostly just rolling along about the same. T is thriving and we adore him. He is 10 months […]

What if you are interested in supporting foster kids, foster families, and biological families who are involved in the child welfare system but can’t be a foster parent? Foster parenting is incredibly demanding in so many ways and just isn’t practical for every family. Here are some ways you can help support the system and […]

We don’t get many days off. Between running our business, shuttling T to and from visits, attending foster care training and taking in respite placements, oh, and bottle feeding baby goats, we keep ourselves really busy. This week though we had one day with no visits or appointments, and our bottle baby was starting to […]

I promised an update on little K, as well as our other respite placements. Hopefully this update won’t make so many of you cry at work! To this date we’ve taken in 3 different kids for short term care. All three have loving foster homes of their own and just needed a place to stay […]

I know everyone has heard about how broken the foster system is. Often though, at least in my experience, what you hear is how foster parents aren’t screened thoroughly enough, are only in it for the money, or are neglecting the kids in their care as much as the biological parents were before they were […]

When we were licensed as foster parents, we were approved for two placement spots, one infant and one child. We have a twin bed in the nursery in addition to the crib, so we technically have room for two. We agreed to this mostly because we thought if there was a sibling pair that needed […]