July 1, 2024 • 10 mins
The challenges that come with raising children are opportunities to give, to love, to learn and to grow. ~ Delilah
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey it's Delilah. Thank you for stopping by. I have
put together some of my favorite radio moments here to
share with you on our daily podcast through Hey It's Delilah.
If you listen to this show for any time, you
(00:23):
know that I have a lot of kids. God gave
me three the old fashioned way through birth and ten
that were adopted. And I have ten children that were
raised that were brought to my life, I should say
through adoption. And the thing is when you adopt children
(00:43):
that have been abused, have been abandoned, have been hurt,
when you adopt children that have been broken. You have
a lot of challenges in life, and sometimes those can
be overwhelming, and you have a choice. You can look
(01:04):
at those as a negative thing and let them overwhelm you,
or you can look at those as opportunities for growth
and opportunities for love, opportunities to push yourself to the
next level, opportunities to give and give and give, because
(01:24):
life isn't about getting and having and owning. It's about
giving and loving and caring. Hello, good evening, You've called
the Delilah Show. Who is this?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Hi, do Ilah, This Tiffany.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Hi Tiffany. What can I do for you tonight.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I just like a song to foster and adoptive moms.
I pray for biological families every day, and even for
adoptive dads. Just I just would like to get a
song to all the foster and adoptive mamas out there,
just to let them know that I'm praying for you
and I appreciate everything that you got that foster and
(02:10):
adoptive mamas do. It's a hard, hard road, but I
just want everyone out there that is an adoptive or
a foster mom to know that the work you're doing
is so so important.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
So are you a foster mom, an adoptive mom, or
are you somebody that came up through the system and
knows how difficult that position can be.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I am a foster and adoptive mom. My oldest son
we adopted through a private adoption agency, and then my
twins we adopted through foster care.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
And how old are they?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
My oldest son, Tripp is ten, and my twins, Pag
and Ellie are five.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
So you got your hands full? Oh yeah, and that's
them fussing in the back.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Oh yeah, she just couldn't help it.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Well, give them lots of love. I am proud of you.
I wish everybody understood how desperately we need good foster parents,
foster to adopt parents, how broken our system is, and
overwhelmed the system is. We've got over half a million
kids in foster care right now who need folks like you,
(03:19):
who will step up to the plate and say, your
baggage doesn't scare me. I'm going to love you through it.
And I'm here forever.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Right to struggle. And it's hard to get people to
step out in faith, but they once they do, they
will absolutely never look back.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Hi, you've called Delilah. Who is this?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Christina?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Hik Christina? What can I do for you tonight?
Speaker 3 (03:51):
I want to say, if you can play a song
for myself and my grandchildren.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
I can. What are their names? Brandon, Austin and Drake. Yes,
I have a little guardianship of them. So grandma is
raising the grandkids. How old are they?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Two? Four and six?
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Ooh, girl, you got your hands full. I bet you
never expected in a million years to be changing diapers
at the stage of the game.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Oh, because my baby's twenty so I told my husband
before they moved in, we're free now she'll be eighteen
I'll need my words.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yep, spoke too soon. Do you know how many thousands
of grandparents there are, though, just like you, that are
raising their grandkids because their kids are making bad choices? Right?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Right?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
So you want a song to let them know how
much grandma loves them. Yes, even when you're tired and cranky,
that's right. Uh huh. I'll play a song for you
and for every grandma or grandpa that is raising and
parenting their grandkids. And though we might be a little
crankier or a little more tired than and we were
the first time around, we've got a lot more wisdom
(05:03):
this time around.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Hi, good evening. You've called the Delilah Show.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Who is this Stanley?
Speaker 1 (05:20):
What can I do Stanley to make your night a
little sweeter?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Today is my sixtieth birthday. I only live once.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Happy birthday to you. Yeah, but if you do it right,
once is enough.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Yeah, exactly. But I'm celebrating all by my lonesome because
my woman is under condition. I can't talk to her,
I can't see her or anything. And that's the hardest
part for me.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Why can't you see your sweetheart?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
I put this? He did something, she shouldn't have done.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Okay, say no, Mar, say no Mar. That's enough. That's enough.
That paints the whole picture. Yeah. There, but for the
grace of God, go I Stanley. There but for the
grace of how many of us, how many of us,
especially at the age you are and I am, have
not made major mistakes or bad decisions in our life?
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Oh yeah, I believe me numerous times.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Hopefully she's learned from hers and will be home soon.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Yeah, like three years, three years relationship, all of this
woman to I just can't stop thinking about her. So
that's how bad it is, you know, and she I'm
sure she is the same way as me.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Will she be home soon? Or is she going to
be gone for a long time?
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I don't know that. That's the thing. That's like, I
got no info on that, and I'm taking it one
day at a time. I got no choice, and I
got her three kids.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
How long ago did this incident happen?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Last week?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Oh so this is all brand new?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Yeah, it's like unexpected kind of thing. It's like, Wow,
I just got a brick dollar dropped right on my head.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
How old are the children?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
A five year old toddler, a eleven year old son,
both both two boys and one teenage seventeen of age.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
She so a seventeen year old daughter, an eleven year
old boy, and a five year old boy. And are
you at mom's house with them or are they at
your house?
Speaker 3 (07:34):
We just moved Friday as of last week, into a
new home, so I have to I set the whole
house up in three days. I got the whole house
all set up, and she's not even here to share
that with me or anything at the moment. And I
have to deal with a whole load of stuff for
(07:55):
the kids, with the kids and everybody else that's helping
me out while all this is going on.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
There's nobody else. Their bio dads are not fighting for custody.
Grandma's are not fighting for custody.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
No, my two stepsons don't have a dad, lost very
young and my stepdaughter she lost her original biological father,
so all three kids have no father.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Are you married to their mom or you're just dating her?
Speaker 2 (08:26):
No?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
I am. I am a fiancee to their mom, going
to be married like the next.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Year maybe if she's home.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Yeah, Well she needs to sort out herself. That's why
all this is happening, because she's she just lost her
mom last year, and she lost her sister two years ago,
so that's back to back, and she's got a lot
to deal with for herself.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Lots of stress, lots of grief and just not able
to be there for her kids or herself.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Yeah, but taking the whole load for myself because that's
how much I love her, because if not, they would
have taken the kids out and placed them somewhere else,
which I don't want.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
You are a good, good, good man, Stanley. Happy birthday.
I know it's not the birthday you hope for or
you dreamed for, you hope to be with the woman
you love. But you are a good man, and I'm
so proud of you. Not many people would do not
many people would do what you're doing. They not very
(09:30):
many people I know would have stepped up to the
plate and said, yes, I will take on these kids,
I will move into a bigger house, I will provide
for them, I will do whatever. You are a good man.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Yes, that's what one of my counselors says. You know,
no man will do what you just did.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
No, I'm very proud of you, very proud of you.
You know what I'm going to get your information off
the air, Stanley. I don't know if we've got any
Home Depot gift certificates or not anymore. If we do,
I'm going to send you one though, because I'm so
proud of you.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Hold on, let me get your info. I so hope
you have enjoyed these radio moments as much as I
enjoy bringing them to you. I'll share more with you
each weekday. On Ay, it's Delilah to
Hey it's Delilah. Thank you for stopping by. I have
put together some of my favorite radio moments here to
share with you on our daily podcast through Hey It's Delilah.
If you listen to this show for any time, you
(00:23):
know that I have a lot of kids. God gave
me three the old fashioned way through birth and ten
that were adopted. And I have ten children that were
raised that were brought to my life, I should say
through adoption. And the thing is when you adopt children
(00:43):
that have been abused, have been abandoned, have been hurt,
when you adopt children that have been broken. You have
a lot of challenges in life, and sometimes those can
be overwhelming, and you have a choice. You can look
(01:04):
at those as a negative thing and let them overwhelm you,
or you can look at those as opportunities for growth
and opportunities for love, opportunities to push yourself to the
next level, opportunities to give and give and give, because
(01:24):
life isn't about getting and having and owning. It's about
giving and loving and caring. Hello, good evening, You've called
the Delilah Show. Who is this?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Hi, do Ilah, This Tiffany.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Hi Tiffany. What can I do for you tonight.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I just like a song to foster and adoptive moms.
I pray for biological families every day, and even for
adoptive dads. Just I just would like to get a
song to all the foster and adoptive mamas out there,
just to let them know that I'm praying for you
and I appreciate everything that you got that foster and
(02:10):
adoptive mamas do. It's a hard, hard road, but I
just want everyone out there that is an adoptive or
a foster mom to know that the work you're doing
is so so important.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
So are you a foster mom, an adoptive mom, or
are you somebody that came up through the system and
knows how difficult that position can be.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I am a foster and adoptive mom. My oldest son
we adopted through a private adoption agency, and then my
twins we adopted through foster care.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
And how old are they?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
My oldest son, Tripp is ten, and my twins, Pag
and Ellie are five.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
So you got your hands full? Oh yeah, and that's
them fussing in the back.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Oh yeah, she just couldn't help it.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Well, give them lots of love. I am proud of you.
I wish everybody understood how desperately we need good foster parents,
foster to adopt parents, how broken our system is, and
overwhelmed the system is. We've got over half a million
kids in foster care right now who need folks like you,
(03:19):
who will step up to the plate and say, your
baggage doesn't scare me. I'm going to love you through it.
And I'm here forever.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Right to struggle. And it's hard to get people to
step out in faith, but they once they do, they
will absolutely never look back.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Hi, you've called Delilah. Who is this?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Christina?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Hik Christina? What can I do for you tonight?
Speaker 3 (03:51):
I want to say, if you can play a song
for myself and my grandchildren.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
I can. What are their names? Brandon, Austin and Drake. Yes,
I have a little guardianship of them. So grandma is
raising the grandkids. How old are they?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Two? Four and six?
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Ooh, girl, you got your hands full. I bet you
never expected in a million years to be changing diapers
at the stage of the game.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Oh, because my baby's twenty so I told my husband
before they moved in, we're free now she'll be eighteen
I'll need my words.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yep, spoke too soon. Do you know how many thousands
of grandparents there are, though, just like you, that are
raising their grandkids because their kids are making bad choices? Right?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Right?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
So you want a song to let them know how
much grandma loves them. Yes, even when you're tired and cranky,
that's right. Uh huh. I'll play a song for you
and for every grandma or grandpa that is raising and
parenting their grandkids. And though we might be a little
crankier or a little more tired than and we were
the first time around, we've got a lot more wisdom
(05:03):
this time around.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Hi, good evening. You've called the Delilah Show.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Who is this Stanley?
Speaker 1 (05:20):
What can I do Stanley to make your night a
little sweeter?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Today is my sixtieth birthday. I only live once.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Happy birthday to you. Yeah, but if you do it right,
once is enough.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Yeah, exactly. But I'm celebrating all by my lonesome because
my woman is under condition. I can't talk to her,
I can't see her or anything. And that's the hardest
part for me.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Why can't you see your sweetheart?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
I put this? He did something, she shouldn't have done.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Okay, say no, Mar, say no Mar. That's enough. That's enough.
That paints the whole picture. Yeah. There, but for the
grace of God, go I Stanley. There but for the
grace of how many of us, how many of us,
especially at the age you are and I am, have
not made major mistakes or bad decisions in our life?
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Oh yeah, I believe me numerous times.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Hopefully she's learned from hers and will be home soon.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Yeah, like three years, three years relationship, all of this
woman to I just can't stop thinking about her. So
that's how bad it is, you know, and she I'm
sure she is the same way as me.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Will she be home soon? Or is she going to
be gone for a long time?
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I don't know that. That's the thing. That's like, I
got no info on that, and I'm taking it one
day at a time. I got no choice, and I
got her three kids.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
How long ago did this incident happen?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Last week?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Oh so this is all brand new?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Yeah, it's like unexpected kind of thing. It's like, Wow,
I just got a brick dollar dropped right on my head.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
How old are the children?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
A five year old toddler, a eleven year old son,
both both two boys and one teenage seventeen of age.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
She so a seventeen year old daughter, an eleven year
old boy, and a five year old boy. And are
you at mom's house with them or are they at
your house?
Speaker 3 (07:34):
We just moved Friday as of last week, into a
new home, so I have to I set the whole
house up in three days. I got the whole house
all set up, and she's not even here to share
that with me or anything at the moment. And I
have to deal with a whole load of stuff for
(07:55):
the kids, with the kids and everybody else that's helping
me out while all this is going on.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
There's nobody else. Their bio dads are not fighting for custody.
Grandma's are not fighting for custody.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
No, my two stepsons don't have a dad, lost very
young and my stepdaughter she lost her original biological father,
so all three kids have no father.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Are you married to their mom or you're just dating her?
Speaker 2 (08:26):
No?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
I am. I am a fiancee to their mom, going
to be married like the next.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Year maybe if she's home.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Yeah, Well she needs to sort out herself. That's why
all this is happening, because she's she just lost her
mom last year, and she lost her sister two years ago,
so that's back to back, and she's got a lot
to deal with for herself.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Lots of stress, lots of grief and just not able
to be there for her kids or herself.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Yeah, but taking the whole load for myself because that's
how much I love her, because if not, they would
have taken the kids out and placed them somewhere else,
which I don't want.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
You are a good, good, good man, Stanley. Happy birthday.
I know it's not the birthday you hope for or
you dreamed for, you hope to be with the woman
you love. But you are a good man, and I'm
so proud of you. Not many people would do not
many people would do what you're doing. They not very
(09:30):
many people I know would have stepped up to the
plate and said, yes, I will take on these kids,
I will move into a bigger house, I will provide
for them, I will do whatever. You are a good man.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Yes, that's what one of my counselors says. You know,
no man will do what you just did.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
No, I'm very proud of you, very proud of you.
You know what I'm going to get your information off
the air, Stanley. I don't know if we've got any
Home Depot gift certificates or not anymore. If we do,
I'm going to send you one though, because I'm so
proud of you.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Hold on, let me get your info. I so hope
you have enjoyed these radio moments as much as I
enjoy bringing them to you. I'll share more with you
each weekday. On Ay, it's Delilah to
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