The Maker's Space

What started as a podcast to help moms building an online craft business has turned into creating a community for moms on a hard journey. Now the Maker's Space is about adoption, family and a WHOLE lotta faith!

Through the adoption journey of an older child, sibling group, I found little support for my families' intense struggles. I slipped into a depression and no longer found joy in things I had done before like sewing or crafting. The behaviors in the house also did not allow for sharp objects, like scissors, to be kept out in the open.

Creating has now become my therapy.

If you know what R.A.D. means, have locks on your doors or security cameras in hallways of your home, if you love Hobby Lobby OR if you can relate to BOTH...I would LOVE to hear from you!

I see you. God sees you. Let's connect.

Bringing a hard adoption & craft community together.

Contributors

Host

Kam

Who am I & why do I care?

When our biological boys started getting bigger, we decided to add to the family.

After a missions trip to Bulgaria, we settled in our hearts that that was where we would adopt a sibling group.

Two years after the trip, we brought three more people into our fold. All together, we had 14, 13, 12, 11, 10 & 10 (suddenly “Irish” twins).

Even before we left Europe, the “honeymoon” period was gone. The children became violent and aggressive. We thought it was out of fear of the adoption.

Reactive Attachment Disorder in all three was now a part of our vocabulary as well as our “New Normal”. But nobody believed us.

So much life has happened and I am a different person but God is still God and He is always faithful. I have learned much and don’t want any mom to feel as isolated and judged as I did/do. I want them to know there are others in her corner.