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navigating the foster care journey skip to content navigating the foster care journey menu search home blog feed search for search just when on april 6 2020 by andrea leave a comment just when i think i can t do this anymore just when i am feeling burdened by the fact that i m changing my family s lives affecting my children that s when i ll pick up the book i m reading and it gives me strength again it s affirmation that i m doing the right thing i still want to give up but i won t it s frustrating and discouraging to think that this baby who is changing our lives so much may not even remember us someday she s amazing and good and sweet natured but if she leaves us she may not stay that way everything we ve done everything we ve given up all the worries and the broken hearts and she may never even know it happened and then i read this loving people without expecting anything in return always turns out to have the greatest returns the best investment of your life is to love exactly when it s most inconvenient the broken way by ann voskamp after all on august 2 2019 by andrea leave a comment wednesday wasn t the end after all that will be in 2 weeks with longer unsupervised visits in the meantime my faith in the system has been renewed and i m treasuring the time i have left with this beautiful girl start end on july 30 2019 by andrea leave a comment i ve been trying to start this blog for over 2 weeks and before that i thought about it for weeks there s never a perfect time when you have 4 to 6 kids in the house there s so much to say and it s overwhelming and time consuming to say it the perfect way writing it all down from the beginning is impossible so screw perfection here it goes foster care is hard no matter the child or the situation or the foster family in one way i feel like a veteran even though i m still with my first placement of 2 girls who aren t sisters one may be going back with her birth parent tomorrow it s an ending and a beginning i keep watching her and stroking her face and kissing her hands and smoothing her hair trying to be positive and upbeat even though i just want to lay down and cry i want to spend every last moment with her and i want to be alone i want to reenact all the fun things we ve done and i want to stay at home with only family i want to spoil her and i want to continue teaching her patience and obedience nothing is for sure maybe there will be more time but maybe not it s completely out of my control which is a blessing and a curse search for search welcome andrea 2 sons 1 nephew 2 foster kids a busy homeschooling mama who 1 loves reading traveling hiking boating and porch sitting 2 hates cleaning cooking and talking on the phone 3 is learning how to balance it all while loving and letting go follow blog enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email email address follow join 2 other subscribers follow on wordpress com categories uncategorized archives april 2020 august 2019 july 2019 blog stats 79 visits since 7 30 19 blog at wordpress com subscribe subscribed compassrosefamily wordpress com sign me up already have a wordpress com account log in now privacy compassrosefamily wordpress com subscribe subscribed sign up log in report this content view site in reader manage subscriptions collapse this bar loading comments write a comment email required name required website design a site like this with wordpress com get started