Tag: Foster Care

I revealed that I had suspicions the two babies might share the same mother. And she of course thought, ‘She’s crazy!’

"I felt the tug on my sleeve and looked down to find him standing motionless. His mouth was moving but I couldn’t make out his words. His quiet body in the noisy room caught me off guard. I bent down to find his voice."

At just 3 pounds, the baby who is now named Samuel Tyler was so small he fit in a shoebox. And that's the where his birth mother put him as a makeshift cradle when she left him at a local firehouse with a note explaining she couldn't care for him.

A young teen looking for a home is praying that his Christmas wish for a family to spend the rest of his childhood with will come true.

"I was a single mom of two boys, doing it 100% on my own. Why in the world would I even consider being a foster parent?"

Jenna and Tim Riccio, two teachers at a Connecticut elementary school welcomed one of their students into their forever family through adoption late last year.

It feels like a ton of bricks on my chest. This is how it happens. You never know when that call will come.

It would start at 5:30 am, and I could hear him down the hall, “Judy, hungry boy.” This went on all day long.