Sometimes, family finds you.

My “practice kid”, my cousin’s kid, who I helped raise, till we had kids…
Is now a foster mom. I’m old enough to be a grandparent, but my kids don’t have any kids.
Anyway, Thanksgiving, she brings this little four year old over. We played and played. When it was time to go, he ran to me and put his arms up. I picked him up and instinctually began to rock and hum with his head on my shoulder. He started to fall asleep .
She had to peel ME away from him.

I don’t know how foster parents handle those babies possibly being taken away at any moment.

What a beautiful family! Bless you!❤️

Oh damn! You made me cry! 🥹

I was taken from my bio home and placed into state care around the age of 13. The group homes were terrifying. My forever home came about when I was 15. They let me sleep on the same floor (vs a cot in a basement) as the family. They bought me clothes so I would fit in at school. They were joyous when I asked if I could sign up for school sports. When you turn 18, even if you are still in high school, you are kicked out of the system and homeless. My forever family said I could stay. I was their first foster kid and they had so many over the years. It’s been 30 years and I was adopted as an adult (bio parents rights terminated was a whole nightmare ordeal making it impossible to adopt me as a child). Because of their attention and love I went on to graduate high school, college, had a very successful career in corporate America and have run my own business for 15 years. They got me the counseling and medicine I needed.

Crying at work. I’m customer-facing. Help me

I want to read stories like this one every single day. Find happiness, and love and share it with people I care about.

Thank you for this, you are such an amazing family!

I got tears in my eyes after reading this much loved family

This has been around for a while, but still very glad they found a family. Can’t imagine how wonderful things must be for these children now.

How f*cked are we as a society when a small child feels the need to write ‘Plez luve me’??

Thank you for loving them ❤️

On behalf of the human race – thank you for making this harsh world a better place for these two precious children. Every ounce of love extended, contributes to the overall healing this world needs.

NFCN Meme lord and a fantastic father, you sir are a legend. Keep up the great work, you bring smiles to many!

I never cry, but this time it has happened. It’s something that strikes the heart of everyone. Thank you.

God bless your hearts 😭

Were they with you for those two years? How long after the universe brought you all together did you adopt them,

Should it exist, these are the kind of people who will inherit the Kingdom of Heaven – those who demonstrate unselfish acts of love towards others.

Omg this is real!. Wow I’m crying, thank you for making those kids feel safe.

This is what real love looks like, y’all. Foster parents like this restore my faith in humanity 🥹❤️

No im not crying, you are

I’m not crying, you’re crying.

That’s beautiful

Life might not always bring the family we’re born w/, but it has a beautiful way of gifting us the family we need

Foster parent here. We had about 20 kids over the years for varying lengths of a few weeks to a year or more. We adopted 5 of them and they are all grown and flourishing. Fostering is a gift to the child and the family.

I was informally fostered as a child, and this post just inspired me to look into becoming a foster parent. I just signed up for the orientation in my county. Thank you.