This Is What Love Feels Like

December 18, 2015.Reading time 11 minutes.

On Sunday, the Cherubs will have lived with us for six months! Six months is a big deal in the adoption from foster care world, because that’s how long you have to live together before you can finalize the adoption. They’ve been marking off the days toward that date with a mixture of terror (that […]

Road to Adoption 9

December 15, 2015.Reading time 5 minutes.

(I’m documenting our path to adopting two awesome older kids from foster care so you can consider it, too.) *** It’s been awhile. You’re waiting. MAPP class is finished, the dates for your home study interviews are on the calendar, and your home is bedazzled with seasonally appropriate decor…and fruit. Always lots of fruit. (Because fruit […]

Christmas Fear

December 8, 2015.Reading time 7 minutes.

We put up our Christmas tree last night. It’s lovely and crooked, decorated by two Cherubs who are fighting mightily with their fear that we’ll disappoint them this Christmas. Fear that the presents won’t be right, or we won’t have traditions, or that this won’t be like they dreamed of when they heard they were […]

Good News overcomes disappointing realities

December 2, 2015.Reading time 8 minutes.

Read this article! You’ll love it, I promise. (You might even print it off and keep it on your coffee table to make you happy, like I did.) It’s about two girls who were adopted on National Adoption Day. They had been in NINE foster homes over the course of eight years. Think about that. Imagine […]