Hello and welcome to Get Attached. My name is Haley and I wanted to share a bit about myself and give a little back ground to why I started this blog. I would describe myself as a millennial with an old soul who loves Jesus and seeks to love others like Jesus. As a 26 year old, single woman I became a licensed foster parent in the state of Georgia in October of 2021.

I started this blog because I wanted a place to be real with people about the struggles, joys, and heartbreak of foster care. I hope people are able to peer into the life of an ordinary young woman who God has let participate in an amazing, hard, rewarding, heartbreaking calling. I have had lots of people tell me, “I could never do that; I’d get too attached” or “It takes a special person to be able to do that.” In these moments I want to make them understand that I’m not doing it because I’m more capable or special. I do it because I have a God who gave me the desire, opened the doors, and has been faithful to sustain and provide every step of the way and I am utterly dependent on Him.

I often write to work through the things I know in my mind are true in order for them to make their way to my heart. I write with a few goals or hopes in mind. 1) That others would feel less alone in this journey. 2) to educate on the need and ways to help even if you don’t open your home to foster care, 3) to share they ways I’ve been sustained by my loving heavenly Father.