This is What Happens in Foster Care

Photo credit: Dairy in the sky via photopin (license) It took me awhile before I could walk past the dairy section of the grocery store without having flashbacks. In my memory, the song always came on…

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“Tomorrow Might Be Our Day”

#tbt to the time that FaithBridge foster mom, Katie Phillips, wrote about her emotions on the anticipation of receiving a placement. It’s a strange space in which to live and one with…

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Jim + Carol

“It’s so much fun!” Jim said for the umpteenth time in the conversation. “The pay is tremendous – you get to laugh, you get your heart filled, you get to see families…

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God Knows Exactly When

At the base of Mount Sinai in Egypt. Photo by Heather. “But I will not drive them out in a single year, because the land would become desolate and the wild animals too…

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ReMoved in Real Life

ReMoved is considered one of the best depictions of what life is like for a child who does not understand the changing world around her when entering the foster care system. In this…

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Twists and Turns to Coming Home

Most toddlers only have one set of parents and have maybe lived in two homes. But not these two. These brothers, by their third and fourth birthdays, had been in three foster…

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All in the Family

Brittany* and her siblings bounced around from relative to relative, in and out of foster care. By the age of  seven, she had more addresses than some have in a lifetime, all…

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