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Piece of the Puzzle
Thank you for being a piece of the puzzle. Each piece represents a person who took a part in these girls life so that they may grow up in a safe place. Away from a chaotic world. Each person helped guide us, advise us, and provide us with the resources we needed to help these girls. These were not the best of circumstances. We did not know what the outcome would be. Only the Lord knows. Our Prayer. We pray that future foster parents/adoptive parents/biological parents are able to gain the help and resources they need to help out children who are in similar circumstances. We know this is not…
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Telling the Family
Of all places we were at a funeral. My Papaw was so excited he kept asking if I had told anyone the good news about the adoption going through. My great-aunt’s beloved had just passed. It was a sad time because we all missed him, however we celebrated his life. So many stories filled the dinner table. There was so much joy and laughter. The waitress felt it was odd how we expressed our mourning. I felt a little odd to mention something so joyous and complete, curing a time of mourning and sorrow. I finally announced that our adoption went through. My great-aunt’s heart and face lit up with…
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Telling the Girls
Adoption is Hard! It’s hard to make adoption into a celebration. Especially if you are in any type of situation we were in. If you would have asked us three years ago if we were going to adopt the girls, our answer would have been absolutely not. It’s funny how God changes our thoughts and situations. We thought going into this we would have the girls a few weeks maybe a month, not forever. How do you know what to say? Foster and adoption moms out there as well as step parents, how did you go about telling your child? And how did you go about telling them their last…
Keeping the Smile in your Journey
