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Foster Care and Adoption

Biological children play a key role in foster homes. Their lives are forever impacted by the foster children that enter their homes.
Foster Care and Adoption

How Foster Care Affects Your Biological Children

Have you seen the movie Wonder? It is the story of a boy who is born with facial deformities which require multiple surgeries and much medical attention. Caring for his needs, taking him to medical appointments, and advocating for him is a full-time job for his mother.  One of the Read more…

By Amy, 3 years2 years ago
Do you think foster parents are superheroes or Mother Teresa? Surprise! Foster parents are ordinary people.
Foster Care and Adoption

Foster Parents Are Not Superheroes!

What goes through your mind when you think of foster parents? Do you see someone swooping in like a superhero to save vulnerable children? Or someone devoting their entire lives to nothing but caring for orphans, like Mother Teresa?  Surprise! Foster parents are ordinary people.  The most unexpected thing for Read more…

By Amy, 3 years2 years ago
Goodbyes have a very different meaning for foster children. They are also one of the hardest things in foster parenting.
Foster Care and Adoption

The Hardest Goodbye in Foster Care

“Grown-ups come back.” The song from Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood resonates through my mind over and over. The episode is teaching preschoolers that when grown-ups drop them off somewhere, they always come back for them. Except they don’t. It happens every day. Children are brought to school or daycare by their Read more…

By Amy, 3 years3 years ago
Foster Care and Adoption

What About the Parents of Foster Children?

Imagine with me for a moment. You drop off your children at school or daycare in the morning and are notified later that they’ve been picked up by someone else and brought to a stranger’s house to live. Or perhaps you’re a father who receives a call telling you that Read more…

By Amy, 3 years3 years ago
Have you ever thought about what it looks like when a new child enters a foster home? I hadn’t either, until I was the mom of that foster home.
Foster Care and Adoption

What’s Missing In Foster Care

A sweet couple announces they are having a baby. Yay! Celebrations abound. First there’s the gender reveal party, then the baby showers. Ultrasound pictures are shared. The couple spends several months decorating the nursery and preparing for their little one. The big day arrives with much anticipation, and soon a Read more…

By Amy, 3 years3 years ago
Wondering how foster care and adoption will affect your bio kids? Read these thoughts from my oldest son, regarding adopting two baby sisters just as he was turning 21.
Foster Care and Adoption

Foster Care, Adoption, and Taking the Challenge

Please enjoy this guest post by my son that was written 12/16, shortly after we adopted our little ones… By Jayson Bronkhorst Foster care and adoption have been on my mind a ton recently. This may be partly due to the fact that just over a month ago, our family Read more…

By Amy, 3 years3 years ago
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