Our Home and Refuge
We've always taken in folks who needed a home--even if we didn't really have room for them. In our first home, while raising five children, over the years we had several guests who remained for different periods of time: For two days and nights, an infant whose mother was in the Navy dispensary and the dad was distraught. He didn't know me at all, but I offered to take the baby and he took me up on it with only my address as any kind of guarantee. A young couple we met while camping, came back to our house and stayed until the husband found a job. One of my teen daughters' friends who didn't like her step-father. Not sure how long she was with us, but a few months. When we moved, to the home we're in now, we brought along son's girlfriend who was in a bad situation. Our new home was also a licensed care facility, where we cared for four and later six developmentally disabled women. We raised a grandson there, had two others...