On a searing July day in 2018, I picked up my former foster daughters. In the year since they had been reunified with their birth family, my husband and I frequently visited them or helped with childcare.
Georgene Smith Goodin
Monday, October 24, 2022
Sunday, October 2, 2022
I Love My Children Enough to Wish I Had Never Met Them
"Never forget that another family has to fall irreparably apart for your family to come together."
Sunday, January 2, 2022
When Our Foster Child Asks If Santa Is Real...
According to my mother, my older brother believed in Santa Claus for “too long.”
Friday, October 22, 2021
The Dollhouse
On Black Friday, my father cleaned up the garden shed, neatly stacking the bags of cedar mulch, and sweeping up the pine needles which blew in whenever the door was open.
Thursday, July 5, 2018
Our Family Isn't What We Expected
On my first date with the man who is now my husband, I told him I
planned to adopt if I couldn’t have biological children. Ten years
later, we found ourselves in just that position.
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