Diaries From Honduras

Fresa Girl - It seemed wrong to open my heart and love her as much as I did. The day she woke up and began calling me Mami Becca wrecked me; not because I didn’t want her to, but because I knew her mami wanted to be there for her. Fresa’s story wasn’t like the others, she wasn’t waiting for child services to find someone who would be willing to care for her - because that...

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Here is my tear-soaked, snot-filled update: If you read one of my previous posts, you’ll remember that I said our house was bursting at the seams and so was our laundry basket. I knew a day would come where our laundry basket would be empty and our hearts would be shattered. Well, that day has come and I wish I could say that our basket was 100% empty, (but ain’t nobody got time for that)...

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 (In centro) I first met baby Linda during a shift coverage in our Centro (emergency crisis care). I could tell right away that not only was she significantly delayed, but that her attachment style was disorganized. She wasn’t fussy often, but when she was - she would pull you in and push you away and repeat this process until she was simply too tired to carry on, eventually passing out in your arms. At eight...

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Last week, we were informed that Sassy and baby Linda were on the shortlist to be reintegrated with family. We had mixed feelings (of course we love them beyond words) but we know that we are only a temporary solution for them. We were so excited at the possibility that child services had found a loving family member for them and dreamt of the future they would have within their biological family. Unfortunately, as we...

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Sassy -  I have started her story three times and then deleted it. How do you find the right words for telling the stories of children in crisis? Sassy and I first met in our Centro de Paso (which is temporary emergency crisis care). All I knew about her and her sister was that in Honduras there are three stages for removing children from their homes, stage three being the worst and they were classified...

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It’s definitely weird, we are parents now. But do you know what’s weirder than that? Tomorrow we could not be and that's just how foster care works. Although, our situation has some more twists to it - because we are not yet biological parents, we will literally go in and out of being a mommy and daddy. We had thought about this long before we began the process of becoming a foster family but now...

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