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Escape to Disney

3/2/2015

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Last night, I was talking about our plans to move to Florida and I was discussing the last time the whole family was in an RV for three weeks straight. Tonight, I wanted to think back to the first time I ever went on vacation to Florida, back when I was six years old.
In December 1999, I was a newly turned six-year-old and a newly turned only child. After two years with us, my very first foster brother and sister had returned to their biological father, and my family was heartbroken. This sadness came at the end of an approximate year of sadness and heartache from other things that my family was going through, which I'm sure I'll get into in another post.

After my little brother and sister were no longer with us, my parents and I just didn't know what to do with ourselves. We were so sad, and my parents wanted to cheer me (and themselves) up as best as they could. So they planned an escape to the happiest place on earth: Disney World.

We figured that we would try to leave all of our sadness (and the snowy cold) in New York and enjoy a nice little break from reality.

Because I was only six, I'm a little fuzzy on the timeline, but somewhere around here, we also discussed whether or not we would continue to do foster care. After so much pain and sorrow from saying good bye to our first foster children, we didn't know if we could go through it again. But in all of my childhood wisdom (hey, I'm allowed to brag about the one awesome thing I've done in my life!) I said something like, "We're not going to help kids anymore because it makes us sad?" I'm sure my mom can comment with what I actually said, because I swear she remembers the exact sentence all these years later. And that was a turning point for us... We decided to continue doing foster care, and when vacation was over, we came back to New York and just days later we took in our next foster child. That little boy turned out to be the first child we ever adopted: my first forever brother.

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Your mom
3/2/2015 03:15:34 pm

Doing my duty here...lol - yes, we never thought about the other side of the coin...kids going back home...it was terribly heart breaking. So on our drive home from FL, way back then, your dad & I were discussing that we didn't think we could do it anymore, it just tore us up. You, of course, were eavesdropping from your car seat & said (in all innocence, just trying to clarify it for yourself), "Mommy, so we're not going to help kids anymore because it might make us sad after?" With that,your dad & I just looked at each other and I said, "Wow, she's right, how selfish are we? How can we stop just because it might hurt a little? These children are hurting all of the time" -- we decided to continue on, and I thank God every day, because as you stated, we got home from vac. on Dec. 15 & your brother came into our lives on Dec. 21. I knew he was "my" son from the moment I layed eyes on him. It was one of the greatest days in my life, and as you know, we were so thankful for the big question from a little girl that just needed to understand.

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    My family started doing foster care when I was three years old. We took in nineteen children over the course of eighteen years, with our last placement leaving in December 2014. I'm the only biological child in my family, though my parents adopted five of my siblings.

    I love to share my perspective on the foster care system and share how my unique upbringing shaped my life.

    I'm also a Cast Member at Walt Disney World and lover of all things Disney! My career allows me the opportunity to find a little bit of Magic in life every day.


    I enjoy sharing my journey as a writer as well. Find my children's books on Amazon and keep following my blog for updates on future books that I'll be releasing!

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