Tag: Foster Parent

"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."

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?"

They just rolled off of her tongue like it was nothing.

"Waking up in the middle of the night, heart racing, sweating: What if she thinks I abandoned her? Praying: God, though I’m not with her, you are."

“I told mom, I was like, ‘I don’t think I’m going to be able to sleep.' She was like, ‘I don’t think I am either.’”

The people behind me, as I wrestled my own whiney toddler, began very loudly whispering things like: "How many baby daddies do you think she has? Can't even dress those kids for weather. Just wait until she whips out the food stamps."