By Kirstyn Wegner They Just Played Dolls: Making Foster Children Feel Welcome
“Mom,” my daughter whined, “I give up. I can’t do this anymore. She is driving me crazy.” I knew the…
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Kirstyn Wegner
Stitching Our Scars into Something Beautiful
I’d always admired the beautiful, blank canvas of my future. I’d always dreamed of the ways I would fill it…
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Dear Grandma, Thank You for the Gift of My Mom
Dear Grandma, I know I’m lucky to still have you in my life—you were a young mom and so was…
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Seventh Grade is the Worst
Seventh grade is the worst. It was for me, at least, and I feared it would be for my daughter.…
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Recharging is Good For My Mama Soul
My daughter is 13. It’s a tough age for any child, but her situation is complicated by her ever-shifting feelings…
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Dear Daughter, When You Doubt Yourself
When my daughter was 10, every time I told her she had a beautiful voice, she’d shrug and say, “I…
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Please Stop Telling Our Adopted Child How Lucky She Is
I know it seems like a very nice thing to say. I know you mean well when you say it.…
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Stop Putting Quarters in a Vending Machine God
I don’t pray like I used to. In the infancy of my faith, I treated prayer like a business transaction—righteousness…
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It’s Hard To Know You’re In The Middle of a Miracle While It’s Unfolding
My life had been struck by the cleaver of tragedy twice: once by infertility and again with an epilepsy diagnosis…
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