Kim McCullough
Kim is native to Northern Virginia and lives with her family in Herndon, VA. She married her high school sweetheart and they have two children, Leland (2014) and Christy (2015). She and her husband have been foster parents through Fairfax County since 2015 and are also adoptive parents through foster care. She is the Director of Foster the Family DC, a local non-profit providing much-needed support to foster, adoptive and kinship families.
5 Ways to Support Foster Parents
I get asked a lot about how people can help support foster parents. And I love that question because I truly believe that more people would foster if they knew they had a strong...
5 Easy Swaps to Reduce Plastic Use
From food packaging to glittery holiday decorations, plastic is almost impossible to avoid. However, more and more information is available to us that should cause us to think twice before we take that next...
Foster Care Awareness Month Part 3: How can I help without fostering?
This is a continuation of a three-part series answering common questions about foster care. Check out Part 1 and Part 2.
I don’t feel called to be a foster parent, but I want to help. What...
Foster Care Awareness Month Part 2: Caring for Biological Families and Emotions
This is a continuation of a three-part series answering common questions about foster care. Check out Part 1 and Part 3 too.
How do you care for biological families that aren’t working to be healthy?
We...
Foster Care Awareness Month Part 1: Answering Your Questions
I gave people a chance to ask their honest questions about foster care on my Instagram stories with the promise of answering them in a blog. So, as promised, here are some of those...
10 Things to Consider Before Beginning Your Adoption Journey
Over six years ago, my husband and I started our foster care and adoption journey. We had a spare room, big hearts, shiny rose-colored glasses, and frankly, quite a bit of innocent ignorance. While those things...
How Being Trauma-Informed is Changing the Way I Parent
I realize that "trauma-informed" is a bit of a buzzword right now. As a foster parent, I spent the last few years learning how to parent children who come from hard places. This means...
An Experienced Campers Guide to Camping with Kids
I’ve only been camping twice in the last 15 years and I have never been camping with kids, which makes me the very last person you should ask about taking your family camping. But...
Conflict in Marriage: How One Friendship Led To Healing
Just a few months after we said our vows, my husband and I found ourselves in the midst of seemingly insurmountable conflict in our marriage. So, of course, we thought a big change was...
The Interruptions Are My Job
Lately, I have had many opportunities to talk to my kids about big concepts, like racial reconciliation, the reality of evil in the world, and the hope we have in God. They ask a...
Training: Why My “Word of the Year” From 2019 Is Still My Word in...
It's January and you've probably already decided what your goals and resolutions are for the new year. But mine this year haven't changed much from the last two years. Yes, even after the year...
Herndon & Reston, VA Neighborhood
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7 Tips for a Thriving Marriage in the Midst of a Pandemic
All marriages go through seasons, but “Pandemic” is probably the season you never saw coming. Maybe the pandemic has been a blessing to your marriage, providing simplified schedules, more margin to connect, and an...
How to Plan a Birthday Party During Quarantine
My son had been looking forward to his birthday for months. And of course, no one could have seen quarantine coming. He turned 6 at the beginning of May and all he wanted was...