It's Saturday night, a few minutes past midnight, and I'm sitting in our dark living room wide-eyed and bushy tailed, unable to sleep. It sounds riveting, I know, but this restlessness is the kind that comes from a stomach bug that has been plaguing our family of 6, one-by-one, for the last 10 days. Tonight,… Continue reading Wild Night
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Four Little Words
I'm in the deep, thick, murky waters of both motherhood and foster care. The usual tantrums and arguments and shoe-tying and snack wrangling that occupied my days has now been coupled with trauma-responses, food-insecurities and learning how to cope with great loss while forming new attachments. Today in church my husband and I stood up… Continue reading Four Little Words
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