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...
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...
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...
