I follow a couple of foster parents I admire on social media and that's how I came to know Peter Mutabazi. Peter is a single dad to Anthony, a young man who entered foster care at age four, was abandoned in a hospital by his adoptive parents at age 11, came to live with Mutabazi [...]
We became foster parents five years ago after my husband came home from work one day and told me that our county was experiencing a crisis and he wanted us to consider becoming licensed providers. “Why not?” I thought. We live across the street from a park and I loved raising our four biological children, [...]
If you're lucky enough to live next door to a sled hill, you might wake up early on a perfect February morning, lounge around in your jammies, have leftover birthday cake for breakfast, bundle up, head over to the hill, race your brother down, catch some air off a jump, make an angel in the [...]
I am always delighted by the opportunity to travel, to explore new places, taste new food, click my phone into airplane mode and be absolutely unreachable until I land. On my most recent trip, I reignited my fascination with vending machines. More than a dozen years ago, the Sprinkles Cupcake vending machine tickled my taste [...]
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