This week as I was listening to the song, “Mary Did You Know” something crossed my mind that I have never thought about. I have thought about how Mary was probably scared after receiving the news from the angel, Gabriel. I have thought about how she felt when there was no rooms available to have the Savior while she was in labor. I have thought about how she felt holding him for the first time. I often wondered if it
Survivors Thriving Writing Retreat in Banner Elk, NC I needed so badly to find the words to express what this weekend meant to me because it truly does help me process when I write. But, I was finding this weekend so hard to articulate. To express my heart. Which if you know me, you know that’s strange because usually my heart overflows with words to write. I finally just closed my eyes and asked myself this question, “What was it that
Surprise 🤍 We ARE OPEN!!!August 3rd, 2021 the day after we adopted Gabriel we closed our home.Licensing needed to do a quarterly visit that same week that we adopted for us to stay open and we needed rest. So we closed.We also felt like God had written the most beautiful story and that we were very much done.Done with DSS.Done with home visits.Done with the unknown.Done with court dates.Done with waiting.Done with the paperwork.Done…This past February, I was sitting at
Hi! I am Brittany lover of Jesus Christ. I am wife to Jared and momma to Jozi Noel (9), and our newly adopted heart grown angel baby, Gabriel (4). I am currently in my 16th year of teaching PE, Weightlifting, and Special Ed PE at Pickens High School in upstate South Carolina. To help pay for lawyer fees to fight for Gabriel I started an online women’s fitness program, Fostering Faith & Fitness. What started out as a handful of
My grandmother is at a nursing home currently for rehab purposes. She fell and broke her hip and had hip replacement. I firmly believe that whole generation could still fight and win against today’s high schoolers.But, as I sat there in the nursing home I started to think about our bodies. There are numerous things that can happen that are uncontrollable: bones that are more brittle than others, dementia, certain types of cancer, heart disease,.. aging. We are on daily
Not one day goes by that I don’t think: what if we had not answered the call that God placed? I believe God would have gotten His plan accomplished with or without us. We aren’t big enough to change His plans or His will. So when I think about that it’s more the things I would have missed out on: I would have missed this guys firsts. First, time rolling over, crawling, walking, going to church, saying “momma”, first Christmas,
Put yourself in his shoes. I just read a quote by @laurenmarl that said death is not the solution to foster care. Death is not the solution to abuse. Death is not the solution to being unloved. If I could have taken those things away from G. Would I l? Most certainly. With my entire being. I would carry that for him. But, would it have been better for him to have been aborted? Nope. God had/has plans for him.
That chicken nug life.Let’s talk food and kids.I use to be like a lot of moms and believe that all kids eat good if they are fed good early. I believe that now to be true just 90% of the time. Joz is a wonderful eater and has a great relationship with food. She eats veggies and salads and likes meals that we cook at home. She eats stuff we grill and isn’t big on processed anything. She understands that
https://fosteringfaithfit.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/IMG_0059.mp4 I prayed for him to smile. The first night we got Gabriel was really intense. His injuries were SO severe he had a hard time trusting us to feed him a bottle. He was very apprehensive of us touching his face. His arm was broke and had been for 2 weeks without treatment. He cried in pain for hours. He had been use to falling asleep without being soothed as well. So there were huge obstacles our first night
Overwhelmed. Feeling all the things as we are two days away from forever. I always read where moms felt the lose involved with adoption, I thought that was strange. But, I have this week felt it. I have been reminded of what G went through to get here- of the brokenness. I have been reminded of phone calls of news that seemed to stop our world on several occasions. But, I have also been reminded this week of the goodness
We have had a lawyer now for 2.5 years. To be completely up front and clear. Jim didn’t win our case. God did. Jim stated every time we walked out of the court room he has known from the beginning a “much greater power is on our side.” But, to have a voice in court we had to retain a lawyer. We weren’t just led to any lawyer- Jim wrote the book. No, he really did. He wrote a book
This week as I was listening to the song, “Mary Did You Know” something crossed my mind that I have never thought about. I have thought about how Mary was probably scared after receiving the news from the angel, Gabriel. I have thought about how she felt when there was no rooms available to have the Savior while she was in labor. I have thought about how she felt holding him for the first time. I often wondered if it
Survivors Thriving Writing Retreat in Banner Elk, NC I needed so badly to find the words to express what this weekend meant to me because it truly does help me process when I write. But, I was finding this weekend so hard to articulate. To express my heart. Which if you know me, you know that’s strange because usually my heart overflows with words to write. I finally just closed my eyes and asked myself this question, “What was it that
Surprise 🤍 We ARE OPEN!!!August 3rd, 2021 the day after we adopted Gabriel we closed our home.Licensing needed to do a quarterly visit that same week that we adopted for us to stay open and we needed rest. So we closed.We also felt like God had written the most beautiful story and that we were very much done.Done with DSS.Done with home visits.Done with the unknown.Done with court dates.Done with waiting.Done with the paperwork.Done…This past February, I was sitting at
Hi! I am Brittany lover of Jesus Christ. I am wife to Jared and momma to Jozi Noel (9), and our newly adopted heart grown angel baby, Gabriel (4). I am currently in my 16th year of teaching PE, Weightlifting, and Special Ed PE at Pickens High School in upstate South Carolina. To help pay for lawyer fees to fight for Gabriel I started an online women’s fitness program, Fostering Faith & Fitness. What started out as a handful of
My grandmother is at a nursing home currently for rehab purposes. She fell and broke her hip and had hip replacement. I firmly believe that whole generation could still fight and win against today’s high schoolers.But, as I sat there in the nursing home I started to think about our bodies. There are numerous things that can happen that are uncontrollable: bones that are more brittle than others, dementia, certain types of cancer, heart disease,.. aging. We are on daily
Not one day goes by that I don’t think: what if we had not answered the call that God placed? I believe God would have gotten His plan accomplished with or without us. We aren’t big enough to change His plans or His will. So when I think about that it’s more the things I would have missed out on: I would have missed this guys firsts. First, time rolling over, crawling, walking, going to church, saying “momma”, first Christmas,
Put yourself in his shoes. I just read a quote by @laurenmarl that said death is not the solution to foster care. Death is not the solution to abuse. Death is not the solution to being unloved. If I could have taken those things away from G. Would I l? Most certainly. With my entire being. I would carry that for him. But, would it have been better for him to have been aborted? Nope. God had/has plans for him.
That chicken nug life.Let’s talk food and kids.I use to be like a lot of moms and believe that all kids eat good if they are fed good early. I believe that now to be true just 90% of the time. Joz is a wonderful eater and has a great relationship with food. She eats veggies and salads and likes meals that we cook at home. She eats stuff we grill and isn’t big on processed anything. She understands that
https://fosteringfaithfit.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/IMG_0059.mp4 I prayed for him to smile. The first night we got Gabriel was really intense. His injuries were SO severe he had a hard time trusting us to feed him a bottle. He was very apprehensive of us touching his face. His arm was broke and had been for 2 weeks without treatment. He cried in pain for hours. He had been use to falling asleep without being soothed as well. So there were huge obstacles our first night
Overwhelmed. Feeling all the things as we are two days away from forever. I always read where moms felt the lose involved with adoption, I thought that was strange. But, I have this week felt it. I have been reminded of what G went through to get here- of the brokenness. I have been reminded of phone calls of news that seemed to stop our world on several occasions. But, I have also been reminded this week of the goodness
We have had a lawyer now for 2.5 years. To be completely up front and clear. Jim didn’t win our case. God did. Jim stated every time we walked out of the court room he has known from the beginning a “much greater power is on our side.” But, to have a voice in court we had to retain a lawyer. We weren’t just led to any lawyer- Jim wrote the book. No, he really did. He wrote a book
