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05/24/2026

Long, Chilly Weekend at the Bay
🪼We are slowing down
🌼 Going outside
🩵Reading
🌻Baking/Cooking
🦋Puzzles
💛Naps
🪻Laundry
🪺Family Time

05/22/2026

End.of.the.School.Year.
🦋I’m wrapping up in 4 elementary schools with only 5 more days of direct mental health services.
🌻My little girl (our youngest) is ending Middle School & will start in a new district for High School!
🪼Both our girls are going to Senior Prom!
🌼My big girl (our oldest) has 1 more graduation, after finals, then all the college prep things.
🩵I’m unsure how this is all happening and it truly goes so quickly day by day, minute by minute.

💛It has me reminiscing about HS, Senior Prom, Senior week in OCMD, undergrad at & the bestest friends from HS & MU who my kids consider aunts/uncles!

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05/21/2026

She makes me proud.
In so many ways…..
She chose me.
She lets me love her.
And keep her safe.

She is smart….
Funny…..
Kind…..
Talented.

HS Diploma. CMA Cert.
College, she’s coming your way next!

Day 👋🏻✌🏻of Foster Care Awareness Month!!I am- Holding on to hope ALWAYS…Every second of everydayI Hope for- healing, gro...
05/08/2026

Day 👋🏻✌🏻of Foster Care Awareness Month!!

I am- Holding on to hope ALWAYS
…Every second of everyday

I Hope for-
healing, growing, recovering
safety, love, unity
stability, kindness, consistency
families, communities, rulings

I Hold On To Hope for- the kids who didn’t get a say in the life they were brought or placed into

I Hope & Pray Everyday for- the grip of holding on to not become too hard for the hands of children to hold

Day 👋🏻👍🏻I struggled with this prompt.*Perhaps it’s where I am as a foster mom to one & an adoptive mom to the other; yet...
05/06/2026

Day 👋🏻👍🏻
I struggled with this prompt.
*Perhaps it’s where I am as a foster mom to one & an adoptive mom to the other; yet their bio siblings.
*Maybe it’s what I hear from my clients as they walk through the trenches caring for little ones.
~The system is so broken.
~There are not enough homes for the children. Some of the homes are not safe.
~There is often not appropriate support for the parents to support reunification.
~There are choices, blame and pressure placed on the children.
~There are barriers for children in care to be able to have access to age appropriate milestones (permit, license, driving, passport, travel, medical appointments, braces, education, safety).
“The world’s on fire. I burn, happily dancing with you.”
I pray that the children feel safe and loved; that they can dance in my home while their world is on fire many days-with uncertainty within the system that they had no say/control/responsibility being placed in.

Day 👋🏻Sure, I can list our typical daily routine. Yet there is so much more.*Paperwork of medication given, appointments...
05/05/2026

Day 👋🏻
Sure, I can list our typical daily routine.
Yet there is so much more.
*Paperwork of medication given, appointments had, appointments listed that are in the future, possession list, clothing inventories.
*Emails, calls and texts with the team of teachers, school counselors, therapists, case workers, GAL, CASA.
*Updates/changes/plans related to visits, court review hearing, appeal to TPR.
*Holding information received and planning on when to tell the child and rest of our family news that may not be easy to hear.
*Decisions made about visits, therapy, school, trips, family planning.
*Balancing siblings who are at different stages of their journey in foster care/adoption.
*Graduations, end of year dances, prom, school trips, drivers license permit tests, passports and all the things school & developmentally appropriate given their age.
*Exhausting, Joyful, Devastating, Heartwarming, Complicated, Easy to Decide Love over all else- One Day At A Time, One Second At A Time

Day ✌🏻✌🏻My point of view is simply being human. As a human I have many roles. My most important, difficult, meaningful, ...
05/04/2026

Day ✌🏻✌🏻
My point of view is simply being human.
As a human I have many roles.
My most important, difficult, meaningful, heart wrenching, unsteady, always trying to do my best yet learning from my mistakes along the way role is Foster Parent.

I would choose this role day after day because the kids and their families need our support.

Day 3️⃣Foster Care Awareness MonthWhat we don’t post…. SO MUCHWhether it’s a celebration|birthday| accomplishment|gradua...
05/03/2026

Day 3️⃣
Foster Care Awareness Month
What we don’t post…. SO MUCH
Whether it’s a celebration|birthday| accomplishment|graduation|school
photo|holiday|family photo|fun
Or it’s a hardship|broken system|court|termination of parental rights (trial can last years)|parental frustration|foster parent fatigue| advocating|504|IEP|lawyers|waiting for birth certificate/SS card/court order for driving permit/passport/travel/medical consent|emails|texts|calls|follow up|reminders to team|lists|lack of follow through on the system|turnover in workers|reunification

What BETTER way to kick off Foster Care Awareness Month?! had the sweetest community event….Items we purchased (in the f...
05/02/2026

What BETTER way to kick off Foster Care Awareness Month?!

had the sweetest community event….

Items we purchased (in the first photo) were purchased from young entrepreneurs & some of the proceeds went to

Such a wonderful, impactful, local non-profit that continues to grow & support our unique community.

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