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Never Enough

Foster care in a word is: humbling. Now that doesn't say a lot does it? I mean I could say that about a great many things couldn't I? Marriage. Parenting. Friendships. Working a job you don't really like. Having a friend you don't really like. This list is long and could go on. And there are these things in our lives that, perhaps, rib us a little more in the area of that great, smallish word: humility.   And as we walk this trodden path through foster care, I am constantly, and completely, being humbled. And it's hard. And messy. And sort of like nothing I've ever experienced before in my life.   And as I put my three year old to bed and he says, "hug n kiss mommy" I think what we mothers of children think often, "I am a terrible mother." Because do you know how many people have asked how in the world we can give our own children the attention they deserve with three more children in the