Author * Speaker
Last week, one of the organizations that helped us adopt the Cherubs asked if I’d write a blog post about our experience. I’ll confess that we were having a rather TEXTURED week here at home (my word for when it feels like things are coming off the rails) and so at first I couldn’t even […]
Read More(I’m blogging about our experience adopting a brother and sister who were 12 & 10 from foster care. I hope it will inspire you to consider doing the same. I’ve adjusted some of the details about our kids to protect their privacy. Everything here is true, but some specifics have been gleaned from other adoption stories. But all of […]
Read MoreWe went on vacation last week :) This was our first as a family. (Because no, I’m not counting that time we took our Black kids to the White Mountains.) We went to Syracuse NY for the Vineyard East Regional Conference, a gathering of Vineyard Church leaders from Maine to Pennsylvania. The difference in these […]
Read More(I’m blogging about our experience adopting a pair of siblings from foster care, in the hope that it will inspire you to adopt. The series starts here.) *** I am speechless about what has happened this week. About these shootings in Baton Rouge and Minneapolis; about my friend who today told her black teenage son […]
Read More(I’m blogging about our experience adopting a brother and sister, ages 12 & 10, from foster care. I hope it will inspire you to consider doing the same. I’m adjusting the names & details about our children to protect privacy. All of the details are true, they’re just not our kids’ personal stories. You can find […]
Read More(I’m blogging about our experience adopting old children from foster care here in Massachusetts, in the hopes that it might inspire you to consider adoption, too. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I’m adjusting the names & details about our children and their birth family to protect everyone’s privacy. All of the details are true, drawn from a […]
Read MoreThe Cherubs are adopted!!! The judge had tears in her eyes as she read the official decrees and signed the documents. The kids had been fairly freaked out by the idea of going to court, but I think they were a surprised by how kind and loving everyone was, from the clerk to the bailiff to […]
Read MoreI’m blogging about our family’s experience with adopting two kids from foster care, in the hopes that it will encourage you to consider it, too. You can read the beginning of the series here. I’ve been absent for about a month, so we’re kicking off with a bit of an explanation, and then a plan for […]
Read More(I’m blogging about our experience adopting old children from foster care here in Massachusetts, in the hopes that it might inspire you to consider adoption, too. It’s a fantastic way to build a family.) *** Your adoption license has FINALLY come through! Which means that now, when you speak to social workers about specific children, they’ll return […]
Read MoreI received a great question in response to yesterday’s post on what it costs to adopt from foster care: How much money are you expected to have as a potential foster care/adoptive parent? Answer: Not much. I say that glibly, but it’s the truth. All the expectations you might have about how they’ll be looking at […]
Read More
Trish Ryan 