Christina, as an infant along with her sister was given to her abusive biological father to parent after her biological mother decided that being a mother was something she did not want. When she was in fifth grade she finally told a teacher that she was scared to go home because she thought her father would kill her.

At that point, she and her sister were placed into foster care where they were then placed with her paternal grandmother. Sadly, their biological father... more

Sorry I have been a little slow with posting since November. When you have computer issues things come to a complete standstill and then to top it off that we can only get dial up. My computer has some major problems so I will be sending it out to be repaired that will leave me posting when I can. Oh how I miss digital instead of dial up…..hmmm….what would I give to be up running at high speed. A girl can dream.

To celebrate National Adoption Month I had a give away for the... more

Weathering the stress of an adoption with Child Welfare can take a lot out of you. We did enjoy adopting our baby daughter on National Adoption Day with all the festivities and fun excitement of the day. There was a lot more stress and drama because of choosing this date.

Up until Friday evening after 5 o’clock we were unsure whether it would really happen. Waiting to the last minute, no, last second to do paperwork is not my idea of being prepared. Add to that, we live four hours away. This... more

The Big Day in a Foster Child's Life

This year for the adoption on National Adoption Day, our area decided to allow each family to have an individual adoption time in the courtroom instead of the mass or group adoption thing. I was not crazy about the idea of the mass adoption so I was quite happy for our own personal time which makes it special.

My sister, dad, my caseworker (which has become a friend) joined my husband, myself and our children in the court room.... more

Yesterday, on National Adoption Day, we adopted our beautiful two year old baby girl. We have been her foster parents since she was two months old. Up until Friday evening we were not completely sure that all the paperwork would come together for us to be able to adopt on National Adoption Day. I will share in another post about the issues, problems and concerns that we struggled with.

There were over eighty families adopting from the foster care system at the courthouse so it was a very busy place. Each family had a volunteer to guide them through the process which... more

In celebration of National Adoption Month and how important it is for foster care, I will be giving away a copy of the new book, “Forever Fingerprints” by Sherrie Eldridge. I purchased this book for my children and loved the book. So, I brought an extra copy to give away here in honor of the importance of this month to foster families that continue parenting children waiting to be adopted.

I am asking readers to share why they chose to be foster parents and continue doing it below. If you have chosen... more

Adopting Through Foster Care

By the time this beautiful girl was available for adoption we realized that parenting her was a huge undertaking and at times could be quite challenging. When the label of Reactive Attachment Disorder was placed on her I was a little thrown, but I had the attitude; “Okay, we will deal with it.”

Then there were the therapists, doctors, caseworkers, etc. painting this bleak picture that she may never bond with anyone and as she grows older she may struggle... more

When you are a foster parent you never know about the foster children that will come into your home. Some children capture your heart from the moment they walk through your door. The moment I saw my baby girl and held her in my arms, she had me. She was far from the ideal baby but that did not matter to me.

She was 13 months old when she came into our lives. She was unable to hold her head up or anything else because she had no muscle tone. She was still only taking a bottle with formula and spent her life in a crib with a flat head to prove it. Being held, cuddled, and loved was not something this baby girl had experienced in her short life. Any time she experienced human contact... more

With this being National Adoption Month in the hopes to have more foster children find adoptive homes I will be doing a few posts on adoption. While there are a number of images of foster children waiting to be adopted and hard struggles that adoptive parents face with adopting foster children for the most part of the images are negative. The truth is that a lot of the foster children waiting to be adopted do have serious issues from medical condition, behaviors, and serious mental... more

While preparing for the long awaited adoption of our baby girl I find my thoughts turning towards her birth parents. While her birth father was not involved much in her life and was not an active parent with visitation with his daughter, he had definite anger and violence issues. Her birth mother is a complete mess and lives a very sad life of sex, drugs, violence, etc that has cost her all of her children. The heartbreak of the situation is that her birth mother continues to her life of destruction. I had hoped that that the reality of her losing this precious baby after losing two others... more