Still caring after all these years

So this weekend, I found myself musing on how some people seem to have an endless ability to give.

For some of us, just getting through the week and keeping our heads above water is more than enough. But over Christmas when out for the obligatory Boxing Day walk, we walked past a group of people of mixed ages, who looked like they were having the type of Christmas that everybody aspires to: lots of laughter; children screaming – in a good way; people smiling.

It turns out that the couple at the heart of this group are foster parents, and the others with them were past and present foster children – some of them now grown up, and returning for Christmas. And all of them looking like they were enjoying being together. How many “traditional” families manage that?

I was told they had been fostering for years, and had many, many children pass through their care, and they looked to be still going strong.

For me, this is something to aspire to.