Foster Care
You Didn’t Birth Me!
“I will find a way to leave. You are not my mom and dad!” she said. Listening and not responding, we let her continue. “You didn’t birth me. You don’t know how I feel. If you did, you would let me go.” My heart broke for her that day. All I did was correct her…
Read MoreMilestones: Bridging the Gaps
This is a very powerful story of overcoming the odds and still be in the healing process. Foster Children suffer from so much loss, hurt, pain, shame and more. We can change this! Please look into foster care and change a child’s life. If I had not adopted my two girls from an orphanage, they…
Read MoreGod Blessed Me with 2 Broken Hearts
They came from orphanages in a far off land. For one child, the back and forth motion helped stimulate her physical and emotional being as if she was rocking to the beat of a song. She cried after each 3 bottled meals a day at 9 months: One bottle of chicken broth, one bottle of…
Read MoreYou’re Not My Dad!
For the past 5 years our daughter’s relationship with her father was a strained one. Having been left behind in an orphanage at 27 months of age without being able to speak or walk, the toll on her emotions and attachment towards others, especially her father, was not what we expected. We really noticed the…
Read MoreRunaway
Realizing that she was gone, I sped to my car throwing the keys into the ignition and raced down the street at full speed. Dressed in black, my car lights were still able to track her down. Slamming the brakes once she was in sight, I threw the car into PARK and swung open the…
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