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aaaannnd SHE’S BACK – the foster care rollercoaster continues

ByChantel October 2, 2021

Just another little update in our foster care journey for you!

You can read more about our journey with BB8 here.

Why We Are Choosing to Foster (Instead of Adopting Again)

ByChantel October 6, 2019

We’ve had a number of people ask us in the last couple of months why we made the decision to start the process to become foster parents and specifically why foster care over another adoption, so, let’s chat about that! Next month marks five years since we adopted Ephraim! And while the journey to him was…

FOSTER CARE

social services definition of “the weekend”

ByChantel January 10, 2023January 10, 2023

Just before New Year’s I shared that R2 and BB8 were over. We had gotten a call that they needed a place to stay for “the weekend” and in true social services form, “the weekend” means ten days. I think a few of us are surprised it ended up only being ten day though. A…

FOSTER CARE | HOMESCHOOL

A Day in the Life of a Homeschool & Foster Mom

ByChantel April 20, 2020

Welcome to a day in my life! I share a bit about our homeschool and foster care journey. If you want to see more videos like this, please let me know! If you found the video interesting and/or helpful and would like to see more in the future please let me know!…

FAITH | FOSTER CARE

This Isn’t Where We Were Supposed to Be Right Now (Literally)

ByChantel October 5, 2019

Last year I started saving for a big trip. Italy has been on my bucket list forever and I really wanted to make it happen. Jared and the kids were leaning towards France so I crunched some numbers and figured out approximately how much we would need to visit both countries for a couple of weeks and…

FOSTER CARE

And We’re Back at It

ByChantel February 14, 2020

Well, yesterday afternoon we had a social worker drop off a 17 month old boy so I guess we’re back at it! Originally, after Buzz and Woody left, we had been planning on taking a break for a few weeks but we took last weekend to hang out as a family and then did a…

FOSTER CARE

Thoughts and Lessons from Our First Month Fostering

ByChantel November 23, 2019

It’s hard to believe it’s been a month since we welcomed Buzz and Woody into our home! In some ways it feels like way more than a month and in others it feels like it has cruised by. I thought I would share some random thoughts from the month. These thoughts aren’t really organized, I’m…

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