Adoption & Foster Care
A little boy not pictured…fast asleep
I have a favorite picture from 2015. As much as I love this picture, the things unseen in the photograph are a bigger part of this picture I love so much. On the other side of the shot, taken with my iPhone, is me. Me, the mother of the five children. Pictured are our four…
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Today is the anniversary of the birth of my real motherhood. The delivery was painful, joyful, and earth shattering. I had given birth four times before. I had miscarried once. I have a negative threshold for physical pain – I had 4 failed epidurals. Well, one completely numbed my right foot, but that’s another story.…
Read MoreMind the Gap
Several years ago my parents took my husband, myself and our, then, four children to the UK on vacation. During our wanderings we had opportunities to ride the underground subway system in London. As the cars would come to a stop and passengers would load and unload a Bristish woman’s voice would come over a…
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