“Confused and worried, I didn’t understand why she couldn’t just stop drinking. In fact, I posed that question to her. She said, ‘It doesn’t work like that,’ and took another sip.”
- Love What Matters
- Family
- Adoption/Foster Care
“Confused and worried, I didn’t understand why she couldn’t just stop drinking. In fact, I posed that question to her. She said, ‘It doesn’t work like that,’ and took another sip.”
“I was so nervous I could have puked. This could make or break us. ‘Tiffany, this doesn’t change anything. I know what I was getting myself into.’ I knew I was looking at my future husband.”
“With 6 failed adoptions in 8 years, we were uncertain we’d have any more children.”
“Foster care is a lot like a rose garden. These children are worth the wait and effort. They are worth the pin-pricks from the thorns.”
“When I think of our foster care journey everything is truly dialectic. It is love and it is frustration, it is depleting and it is rewarding, it is heartbreaking and heartwarming all at once.”
“A 5-day old baby was placed into my arms. I was only 22 years old but, at that moment, my life as I knew it changed. I fell in love.”
“She was in a little yellow nightgown onesie and it was way too big for her. I signed some paperwork, got her out of the car, and the case worker handed me a diaper bag packed by a local church. That was it.”
“Brycen didn’t know about us until two days before our first visit, to protect him from having high hopes ripped away again. He’d experienced many adults not keeping promises, so he kept questioning if we were really going to adopt him.”
“In one year’s time, we went from 3 children to 6. This is not normal, but in foster care, there is no normal!”
“He gave me back the second half of my childhood. He gave me the safety I had never known. My life wouldn’t look at all like it does without him.”