The Best Take Out and Delivery
We like to joke that eighteen years ago our fostering and adopting journey began with one carry out and one delivery daughter. Prayer and…
We like to joke that eighteen years ago our fostering and adopting journey began with one carry out and one delivery daughter. Prayer and…
by Christie Erwin November is National Adoption Month and the second Sunday in November is Orphan Sunday. On one hand, I love this month because…
“Please close our foster home…” These were very painful words to type. The decision to close our home to fostering was far harder to make…
She shuffled into the visitation room at the Department of Children and Family Services and slumped in a chair. With her eyes focused on the…
In my 23 years as a mom there have been many homecomings as I brought my six children home for the first times. When Cory…
“Mrs. DesCarpentrie, do you have room for one more?” It’s a question I have been asked several times from a Department of Children & Family…
Do you have room for one more child? While we lived in a little three-bedroom house, we adopted three kids to add to the three…
Eleven years ago, I was reading a “Woman’s World” magazine, and one article changed my thoughts on how many children is “enough.” At the time,…