This blog post feels a little vulnerable to share. Maybe because we’re in a season of life where so much is changing. A season where a chapter that was such a big part of our lives has come to an end. I don’t have all the words for how that feels yet. But I am grateful for where we are in life right now, and I wanted to share that. We closed our family home. It still feels like a strange sentence to write. For us, running a family home was never just a task. It was our life.

During a vacation in Surinam, I had a quiet but profound realization: my life has truly changed. Not because everything is suddenly easy, but because I’ve started protecting the space within me. And that shift, learning to set and honor my boundaries, has allowed me to grow in ways I never imagined. This realization came after we received a message, with the question if one of the children who had once lived with us could stay a while with us. His father was in the hospital,