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I Am a Certain Thomas
My life has been blessed with the certainty of God’s existence. My brother was born multiply disabled with Rubella syndrome, (a warning to those who do not believe in immunizations.) He was almost...
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Mothers, Help Your Sons Grow Up to be Fathers…
My oldest son, Francis, grew up amongst a caravan of foster brothers and sisters. Specializing in newborns and infants who had been affected by prenatal drug exposure and addiction, our family was...
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“God Don’t Make Junk”
This used to be my mom’s favorite saying. She believed it all of her life, but never as much as she did after the birth of my brother, Curtis. When she was pregnant with him, she was unknowingly...
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She LOVES me! She really LOVES me! (not…)
Anyone who is raising a child with reactive attachment disorder knows that love and caring is not always reciprocated. In fact, often the children are so hostile that we wonder what we are doing wrong...
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She Looks Just Like Me!
My children who are adopted are of mixed races, which has instigated a lot of joking over the years about how much we are like each other. Three of my children have brown eyes, just like me! Two have...
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“If You Look for the Goodness in Your Children, Good Things Will Happen”
My dear friends and readers, Please excuse this commercial interruption of your regular reading. If you enjoy reading my blog, you will LOVE reading my book! The Apple Tree: Raising 5 Kids With...
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Church is Like a Hospital
Sitting in church today, grumpy and petrified for Steven’s future, I barely listened to the sermon. During my mind meanderings, I heard Pastor suggest we all think of church as a hospital for those...
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The Words Every Adoptive Mom Longs to Hear…
Like most other adoptive parents, I adopted children because I, selfishly, wanted children. (My theory was if I had children to care for, I really didn’t have a lot of extra time to clean the house. I...
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Here a Friend, There a Happiness
My daughter, Marie, was severely abused as a toddler and young child. She came to live with us at the age of 7 after being found wandering the streets barefoot at 2 am carrying her infant brother...
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Termites Aren’t so Bad
My oldest son, Francis, was born “legally blind”. His visual acuity stabilized at 20/400. (In layman’s terms, what a fully sighted person could see 400 feet away, Francis could only see blurrily at...
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