This post may or may not relate to you, but I suspect it probably will on some level, so please keep reading! I don’t care how long you’ve been fostering, but I would bet that at some point you have compared yourself and your ability as a foster parent to other foster...
I know that the topic of self-care is a hot button issue. Everybody’s talking about self-care, make sure you do your self-care, self-care, self-care, self-care. And honestly, it made me mad for a long time because I felt like I was taking care of myself. Get off my...
So last time I talked about sharing your child’s story with them. And I realized that I had not done as well with our son as I had thought. There are definitely some difficult details that I knew I needed to share, but it occurred to me after listening to a talk at...
Recently, I attended a support group meeting in which the topic for the night was sharing your child’s story with them. At the risk of sounding overly-confident, before I went, I felt like I had done a pretty good job of things. But, as often happens when I am...
If you’ve read my blogs previously, you might know that for the past two posts, I have discussed the power of the outdoors and the power of water. I’d like to add to this “power” list, if I may, by discussing the power of heavy work. Now I’ll be the first to admit...
