Our Foster Care System is Failing All of Us
Providing foster care is not for feint of heart. Let’s just get that out of the way right up...
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Category: Adoption
Earning Trust of Foster Care Children
Today’s post is about earning the trust of foster care children. Because believe me, this is...
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What is Family?
My son had a son. How awesome is that? Shortly after that occurrence a well meaning...
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Adoption, Family and Joy
Make no mistake; kids change our lives. And then there is the added bonus of the joy of adoption....
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Special Needs Adoption
When Marie and I first talked about adopting a child out of the foster care system it never...
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Considering Foster Care
At a family after-Christmas celebration in Missouri I had a chance to interview my sister-in-law...
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Emmaisms: Going To The Daddy Store
Shortly after The Day I Met Emma Marie spoke to Jodi, Emma’s foster mom, to see what Emma...
Read MoreLove and Adoption
Love is a funny thing. Have you ever tried to describe it? Songwriters and poets have been working on a unified definition of love for a couple millennia and still we have nothing concrete that we can tell our children, “Hey,...
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The Day I Met Emma
Somewhere in north Tulsa, Oklahoma in the spring of 2003 I sat in our champagne colored Nissan...
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