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Category: National Foster Care Month

I love you more…

Posted on May 30, 2018May 30, 2018 Mama MichelleLeave a commentPosted in Birth Family Relationships, Encouragement, Loss and Attachment, National Foster Care Month

  A toddler boy walked through my door into my house with only the clothes on his back and no shoes. He didn’t show any fear and was quick to assimilate into our life for two days. Maybe he wondered why he was here and what happened to his mommy, but couldn’t put his thoughts […]

Sweet Case Build: our community comes together

Posted on May 29, 2017 Mama Michelle1 CommentPosted in Encouragement, National Foster Care Month

Wow, 103 bags…43 over our original goal of 60 sweet cases! I love our community filled with friends from all different circles who came together for this event. Many thanks to our dear friends and family for financially supporting our fundraiser and for also being available to participate in our Sweet Case Build by stuffing […]

A child in foster care wants and needs your messy life

Posted on May 27, 2017May 28, 2017 Mama MichelleLeave a commentPosted in Encouragement, National Foster Care Month, New Placement

You’re a saint, people tell me.  Well, no I’m not. Let me show you what can happen in my ordinary family and how the Lord still uses us to provide a loving home for children in foster care. As I sat in the airport with my family waiting to board our 3-hour evening flight home from […]

He didn’t even have a trash bag

Posted on May 15, 2017May 19, 2017 Mama MichelleLeave a commentPosted in Encouragement, National Foster Care Month, New Placement

I sat along the wall of the classroom, suddenly not hearing anything the tutor was teaching the students about grammar. A text came that sent my excitement level up a few notches during a typical Monday at our Classical Conversations homeschool class. You know, the kind of text that makes all foster parents perk up and […]

Serving the masses, seeing the one

Posted on May 15, 2017May 17, 2017 Mama Michelle2 CommentsPosted in Encouragement, National Foster Care Month

Our swagger-wagon inched along…no, centimeter-ed along…in a long lineup of cars just one block away from the Disneyland main parking structure. It was 9:00 in the morning and this was only a glimpse of what was in store for us at our destination. Three boys sat in the back, crazy with anticipation for the exciting […]

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