#11: I have a lot to learn

This week Becky, Katy, and Ashley are talking about how we all have so much to learn as we embark on the journey of parenting kids from hard places. This broadcast is continuing our series "What I Wish I Would Have Known."

You can learn more about our ministry by visiting http://www.togetherinthetrenches.com/.

Music Credits: 
"Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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#10: Milestones Look Different

This week Katy and Ashley are talking about how milestone look different for kids from hard places and give the reminder to look for each child's successes and celebrate them and catch them. This broadcast is continuing our series "What I Wish I Would Have Known."

You can learn more about our ministry by visiting http://www.togetherinthetrenches.com/.

Music Credits:
"Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

#09: The physical toll

This week Becky, Katy, and Ashley are talking about how foster care and adoption affects us physically while sharing some of our personal stories and insights. This broadcast is continuing our series "What I Wish I Would Have Known."

Notes: 
Ashley mentioned the book "Crazy Busy," which you can learn more about here.

If you want to tune in live on Periscope, find us here on Wednesdays at 9 pm ET.

You can learn more about our ministry by visiting http://www.togetherinthetrenches.com/.

Music Credits: 
"Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

#08: Failure happens

This week Becky, Katy, and Ashley are talking about how failure happens and how we are able to find grace and freedom in the midst of failures we come to face.

Notes: 
You can see Ashley unboxing her planner here. This is the planner Ashley is swooning over in the podcast.

This is the blog post Ashley mentioned by Jess Connolly: Take Yourself Out of the Running.

If you want to tune in live on Periscope, find us here on Wednesdays at 9 pm ET.

You can learn more about our ministry by visiting http://www.togetherinthetrenches.com/.

Music Credits: 
"Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

#07: Not all sunshine and roses

We are so excited to revive the Together in the Trenches podcast!!! Woot! Woot!

We are starting a new series to kick off the revival of the podcast called What I Wish I Would Have Known...

We hope this series not only encourages all the moms that are in the trenches with us where ever life has you on your journey, years down the road or just starting out.

Notes:
If you are interested in joining our Together in the Trenches Community facebook group, click here to join!

Music Credits: 
"Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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#06: Find the Time

Host Katy Adams is back from California and joined with Becky and Ashley to talk about an important topic: marriage. We explore how marriage is affected by foster care and adoption, going through difficult seasons, and how to find the time to be intimate. Also, we laugh a lot and have a few moments that made certain people blush. Ha! Have a listen and enjoy!

Music Credits: 
"Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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#05: Hard but Beautiful

Host Becky Raver is joined with Ashley Wells and they discuss an article Ashley found on The Mighty called A Therapist's Perfect Answer to 'When Will She Be Normal?' Becky and Ashley talk about how this article relates to foster and adoptive motherhood and also the ultimate hope we have thanks to Christ.

Here is the original article on The Mighty:
http://themighty.com/2015/06/the-perfect-thing-a-therapist-said-when-i-asked-if-my-baby-would-be-normal3/

We also mention an article on Becky's blog:
https://theadoptioncottage.wordpress.com/2014/12/16/sorry-is-mount-everest/

Music Credits: 
"Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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