By Melissa Miller The Rollercoaster of Foster Care and Adoption
After spending most of their childhoods in foster care, Addy and her brother Dominick had never been to a birthday…
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Motherhood
I Had the Strict Mom
I was raised by a mom who people referred to as the helicopter mom, the overbearing mom, or (my favorite)…
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Motherhood is the Great Uniter
Connection. It’s something that we all need right now. I knew that when I became a mother, I would be…
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By Lili Foltz Going on Family Vacation with Young Kids is Work That’s Worth It
Our routine will be a mess. Our toddler won’t sleep in a new environment. Our baby needs all of the…
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By Laura Costea Separating Work From Home is a Must For Me
If I close my eyes and let myself, I can still see the 11-year-old boy with his pale feet sticking…
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By Dawn Sicard One Child, One Moment, One Memory at a Time
As I sit and watch my girls play in the water at our cabin, I can't help but smile. Their…
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By Gayle Brown Your Son Won’t Care About Decorating His Dorm Room
'Tis the season for dorms for those of us whose children are in college. You may be designing, planning,…
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By Her View From Home When Teens Are Hard to Love, You Love Them Harder
I lay face down on the floor, praying. Praying in the loosest sense of the word. Praying in the Romans…
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By Autumn Knapp I Want To Raise Good Sisters
My current dilemma: how to teach four little girls how to be good sisters when I have no idea what…
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By Hannah Dearth I Don’t Just Love You, I Like You
My growing child, my heart often aches when I look at how big you have gotten. You aren’t a baby…
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By Shannon Sellers We’re Learning to Be Just the Two of Us (And It’s Fun!)
My husband and I have been married for 23 years and we have never spontaneously gone four hours away to…
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By Ashley Prinsen Dear Kindergartner, I’ll Always Remember You This Way
The first magical flickers of your strong heartbeat on a black and white screen— the reassuring evidence I needed to…
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