fostering
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We Planned for Two. We Got Three. And It Was the Most Perfect Accident of Our Lives.
Why We Chose Three Strangers Over the ‘Perfect’ Family Plan Between 65 and 80 percent of siblings in foster care are separated from each other. Source: Child Welfare Information Gateway Let that sink in for a moment before I tell you our story. The First Date That Changed Everything Shane and I skipped small talk
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The Heartbreak and Hope of Our First Foster Placement
Our very first experience as foster parents started with an emergency phone call. COVID hair was a real thing. “Hey, we have two kids who need an immediate home,” our Foster Agency Supervisor told us. “They may need a permanent home, we don’t know. We just know that they need somewhere to go.” Shane and
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Three Kids in Three Hours’ Notice. Here’s What Happened.
Three Hours It’s May 5th (insert Mexican grito). I’ve been invited to speak at the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption retreat on our story — a few days where passionate employees and adoption recruiters come together around one shared mission: getting kids who need homes into homes. With that on my mind, I’ve been flooded