Tag: Foster Care

"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.

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

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.