We Are Not Saints
Our foster care journey started in 2015. After many stops and starts, expectations and disappointments, and mounds of paperwork, my husband and I officially became foster parents in August of 2016 when our (first) two foster sons moved into our home. We weren’t even technically licensed yet, but here they were. They were 8 and 10 years old with a long list of behaviors, traumas, and family baggage that moved in with them. You can imagine the comments we received. …