Ten Minute Momentum is a place where I want to help you look at your minutes and days a little differently. For too many years, I disqualified myself from accomplishing goals. I had lots of excuses. I was busy. I didn’t have time. I had too many kids. Homeschooling and foster parenting took up all […]
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(Affiliate Disclosure: I may receive a small commission from items purchased through the links below) Scrolling through Amazon, I was quickly skimming to see if there were any books on adoption that jumped out at me. We started our fostering journey in 2010 and adoption in 2013. Right now, I’m in a season of reflecting
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When I am in conversation with people, especially someone I don’t know well, it will often come up that my husband and I were foster parents for many years. When people hear we have 9 children, the next questions is usually, “Are they all yours?” I’m comfortable saying, “Yes they are… 6 are biological and
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Psalm 91 has 5 names of God. This is key to understanding the power behind this Psalm and the protection it offers for us today. Psalm 91 is a secret key to helping believers know and trust God no matter what is happening around them.
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If you are new to fostering or just beginning the process, you may wonder what is back to school like in foster care? Over the years, several of our foster children were school-aged. This is a distinctly different experience than having preschool or infant foster children because children going to school are going into yet
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Several months ago, I made a “contract” with my teen foster child. After our foster daugther had been here about a month, it became apparent that there were some serious issues that nearly caused a placement disruption. We were dealing with issues common to kids in foster care like stealing, lying and deception. Initially I handled
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Continued from Part 1 of When God Whispers – Our Adoption Story Idealism Meets Reality –(The part where fostering is so much harder than we could have imagined.) Our double adoption began with fostering. We said “yes” to the CALL…and they came. The social worker arrived first followed shortly by Sadie and Abel with their
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Like many stories, our double adoption story does not have a concrete beginning. I think I have wanted to adopt since I was a child. But, this adoption…the one where we add two blessings to our family, began in early 2006. By God’s grace, we had found a buyer for our small bungalow house right before
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Foster care is full of unknowns and every family chooses to foster for different reasons. But again and again, I was reminded that with foster care it’s not a grocery store. You can’t pick and choose who you get. Every child is special and every child has needs and has been through trauma…every child.
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