Read this beautiful adoption story and use it as a guide for fostering as well as adopting.
From a foster mom:
In a few days we sign adoptive agreements for our two girls. I want to share a bit of our story, because it is more than I truly ever knew to ask God for.
I think too often adoption erases family instead of expanding it. It ignores the stories and the histories and the memories of what could have been. It isolates our children from more relationships, more connection, more love.
As an adoptive parent it’s so easy to want to be “enough” for them. To be jealous of their relationship with their biological parents. To want them all for ourselves.
But when we open our hearts to loving their parents, their siblings, this is what you begin to learn: our children understand the simplicity of having multiple families. Multiple parents.
We are the ones who make it weird. The more people who love our kids, the better they are.
My baby girls’ mama is now my best friend. She is my equal co-parent. She is an aunt to my oldest. My husband and I are an aunt and uncle to baby girls siblings. Together, we are one big family.
I know not every relationship with biological parents can look like ours. We are blessed, immensely blessed.
But in every situation, we should treat bio parents like the parent of the child you love. Because that’s exactly what they are. 
