I know this is short notice but all DFW Metroplex Pinkberry and select Metroplex Dickey's Barbeque will host a fundraiser on Saturday, November 10 from 3:00 PM to 8:00 PM to raise funds to support efforts to move waiting Texas children from their temporary foster care homes to their permanent forever families. Staff from Covenant Kids will [...]
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Tapestry Conference – Adopt-Ed
We will be speaking at the Tapestry Conference this Saturday morning. We are thrilled and a little overwhelmed, partly because we have to present as a couple but mostly because we are sleep deprived. Our thanks to Annie McClellan (@anniemcclellan) for the following. In their session, Adopt-Ed, Ryan and Kayla will focus on educating parents to educate educators [...]
The Sweetness of a Child
Jesus had a lot to say about children while he was on earth. He taught that unless we changed and became like little children we would never enter the kingdom of heaven. I had a lesson in this on Sunday morning. Our seven year old daughter Tori lost a tooth last week. She always asks [...]
Reach for the Stars
Dr. Martin Luther King won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. His acceptance speech at the awards ceremony in Oslo on December 10 of that year included the following: I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities of history. I refuse to accept the idea that the "isness" of man's present nature makes him [...]
Homemade Granola Bars
Well I've had writers block for a while now. I have a blog in the works about why we foster (and why you should too), but I can't seem to finish it! So in the mean time I found a great recipe to share as we go back to school and back to packing lunches. [...]
Culture Club
Something that has happened over the years is that we tend to spend more time with families that look like ours. Foster families. Adoptive families. Multiracial families.You get the point. We love being around people who get who we are as a family. There is great comfort being around like minded people. As we are drawn [...]
Give Peace a Chance
There is much pain and sorrow in this life. Sadly, because of what we are called to, we have knowledge of and deal with the consequences of abuse and neglect in the lives of little ones. Many of them are unsettled in their spirits and know no peace. Peace I leave with you; my peace [...]
Worked for us Wednesday: Trust Bank
We've decided, to keep us posting regularly, to start something called Worked For Us Wednesday. We'll be posting different things we have tried and had success with. Whether that be a new recipe, a parenting idea, a school project, etc...if it worked for us we want to share it with you! 🙂 We stress to [...]
Empowering your kids is, well, Empowering
The reason we are big proponents of Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) at our house is that it works for everyone. It doesn't matter if the children are adopted, birth or foster this stuff just works. Perhaps an explanation of our family dynamics would help to illustrate the point. I'll be brief. We have three [...]
Foster the People
Last Monday we opened our home to a twenty one month old little boy and his four day old sister. Being the home kids are placed in immediately after they are removed from their families is very surreal. It almost feels like you're watching a movie. I can only start to imagine how traumatic it [...]