Against All Odds

  • Andrea Sanford Huerta
Illustration of a girl sitting alone
Original illustration by Christine Ongjoco

I will never forget that day. I had just started a full-time job and after five years of fostering with 16 goodbyes, we thought we were done fostering (the ultimate joke on anyone with an active foster license). But I heard something in that call that stretches a person in the way only foster or […]

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About the Author

Andrea Sanford Huerta

Andrea Sanford Huerta and her husband Andrew chose to start fostering in 2017 even while growing their own family to four biological children (now ages 4 months to 9 years). In her free time, Huerta moonlights as a writer and marketing consultant and co-owns Simple Family Spanish, an Amazon curriculum that makes it simple for families to speak Spanish together. In 2025, their next adventure will be fostering in a foster village in South Carolina. Connect with her at @fostering_homestead_hope on Instagram.

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