All One Family Together

Mom to her boy, over the phone: “Mommy has always loved you so much, and Jamie has always loved you so much. You are so blessed, because you have *two* families that love you...actually...it’s not two families, it’s just one family, because we’re all one family together.”

Foster care is co-parenting with the state & the system & a stranger.

It is the messiest mix of beauty & brokenness,
the trickiest tension of “yours” & “mine”,
the heaviest hard of what should be & what is.

Foster care is two families unified through separation,
a child experiencing the loss & gain of a family,
the brokenness & blessing of “all one family together.”