Mom’s Family: Lessons in Acceptance

Every Family's Got One Guest Writer -- Stacie Evans My grandmother, who I called Mom, had many children. Biologically, there were two, my dad and my uncle. But she was a foster parent for more than 40 years, starting when my father was a teenager.  Many of her foster kids stayed in our lives long after they moved out of her house. They became family. The older ones became my aunts and uncles. The ones my age and younger became cousins. I think about what having a long-term foster placement meant for the kids who came to Mom’s house, and [...]