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Limiting screen time without entertaining your kids

This is how we have tried to create a playful environment with limited screen time. So, you’ve read the studies (or at least the news...

Openness in Adoption

It doesn’t have to be scary. Sharing your child with more people to love them while there are many factors to consider, it can definitely...

How much to share?

So, you've adopted or fostered, or gone through infertility. These are big life experiences. They're also not completely unique to you...

Words Matter

The words we choose matter. This is a truth that is found countless times in the Bible but don’t we know it inherently? Can’t we all...

"Mom"- Owning it

As a foster/adoptive mom, I've had some moments where I feel more their mom and moments where I feel less the mom. I'm his foster mom....

What's love got to do with it?

As a wife, mom, daughter, sister, friend, Christian, I love a lot. I know how to love, right? I am also a teacher and foster parent, I...

It's great you Foster... I could NEVER

Responses to encourage others and bring light to the truth of what foster parents do. To be honest, we kind of started for the wrong...

What do you REALLY need for a baby?

When you have little to no time to prepare for bringing a baby home- what do you really need? What should you have on hand? In our...

Hard days and long nights

Where do you find encouragement when you're in the trenches of hard days and long nights with kids (no matter the age!) Right now I have...

Mommy's first day of (no) school

I'm doing it. I'm staying home. I'm a stay at home mom. I thought it would be a lot harder to adjust to staying home and not being in...

Taking Tacos

Each Sunday our church shares lunch. Many of our members aren't super close to our church building and travel pretty far to worship...

What do you do with Mommy issues?

Foster children often transfer their behavior from how they interacted with their mom to their foster mom. In our case, Buddy had some...

Grace for the Tactless

Kind answers to rude questions. Being a foster parent (foster family) means you've received training, not only on the care for children...

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