Love is what makes a family...

So here's the thing with Foster Care. Kids who have been removed from their homes due to abuse or neglect are going through trauma. They are in the depths of a horrible situation that will stain their entire lives. They are being ripped from their family and everything they have known and thrown into a complicated welfare system. This system often fails, bouncing these innocent children around from home to home, admitting them into residential treatment facilities and then out into group homes. This lack of stability can further decrease waning self-esteem. Packing their belongings into trash bags before moving into another temporary situation making them feel even more unlovable. It has been on my heart as long as I can remember to be a mom, and more specifically, a mom to kids who don't already have one (even my baby dolls were always orphans). However, it's hard to celebrate my heart's desire coming to fruition when it's because of these circumstances. While I ...

So as we have blasted everywhere and I'm sure you have seen, Ryan and I are going to be foster parents!! We know this will be a wild journey, but we also know that it will bless our lives immensely.  We have had a lot of questions already that we haven't been sure how to answer, so I decided to get back into my blog and work through some of them! We want to be very open about our process and share our story with everyone in hopes that it might encourage others to step out in faith into a life that they are scared to go after! So... here goes.  Aren't you scared about how hard it will when kids leave?   Yes. Of course we are. We are terrified. However, we found this quote that we just fell in LOVE with when we were seriously talking about whether or not we could handle it: "We are not afraid to grieve, we are afraid of what will happen to these children if no one takes the risk to love them."  Why are you doing foster and not adoption? / Are you going to ...