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Happy National Adoption Awareness Month!! To those who have adopted; I want to thank you. For those who haven’t, and are thinking about...

Before I even begin on a topic that is so hot right now... I'd love to begin in prayer. God, I truly want every single word typed out to...

There are so many reasons why people are involved with foster care. For my husband and me the reason was the gospel. God placed desires...

I don't even know how to begin. We found out this morning that our son's birth mom passed away. So many thoughts have ran through my mind...

"You're a mean mommy!!!" Ouch. Those words hurt. But those words were yelled at me tonight as I was trying to help my adopted son get a...

When things get hard in life we all tend to react!! Most often we desire to stop doing that “hard thing”. We want to just give up, walk...

2,026 days in foster care and today Madison Smith and Hannah Threadgill OFFICIALLY have a forever family!! I know a lot of people don’t...

Will you follow Him anywhere? I can easily say “yes” but when it comes down to God asking me to do things I really don't WANT to do... I...

A Year of discipleship, a lifetime of Hope "Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house...

I remember 14 years ago, when I was a Teacher's Assistant, at Graham Elementary School. I was doing a project with my Kindergarten...

Hope noun. a feeling of expectation for a certain thing to happen. a feeling of trust. The word hope has always been fairly commonplace...

2,026 days in foster care and today Madison Smith and Hannah Threadgill OFFICIALLY have a forever family!! I know a lot of people don’t...

When I looked at this picture, I just cried. Not often do I think about when I was a baby, or about good memories with my biological...

It’s been said that being bitter is like drinking poison and expecting someone else to die. It destroys families, marriages, companies,...

“It takes special people to do what you do”, is a phrase that we hear often when we tell others that we are foster parents. Honestly, we...

Around this time last year, my family and I were packing up bags and suitcases to say goodbye to a precious little boy who had been in...

A considerable amount of our lives can be summarized as time spent waiting. Whether it is waiting in line, on the phone, to grow up, to...

James 1:27 "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to...

This post is a hard one for me and it's one I have contemplated sharing for a long time. It's not even one I necessarily desire to write....

WOW has this season of life been weird! If you would have told me last year that our nation would shut down for months due to a worldwide...