Making a Mother E3: You're Not Gonna Quit On This Kid

Coffee + Crumbs Podcast

Ashlee Gadd

Storytelling, Kids & Family, Religion & Spirituality, Toddlers, Friendship, Pregnancy, Grace, Coffee, Adoption, Miscarriage, Parenting, Motherhood, Newborn, Christianity, Crumbs

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

From the time she is young, Faith has a desire to foster or adopt, and assumes it will happen after she gets married. But a life-changing conversation with a pastor challenges her to pursue foster care, even though she is a 29-year-old single woman. This one decision sets off a cascade of events that lead her to motherhood, love, and a fresh appreciation for how God’s plan isn’t constrained by our idealized timelines.

“Making a Mother” is a production of Coffee + Crumbs.

Executive Producer, Writer: Ashlee Gadd.

Producer, Writer, Host: Julie Vlahon.

Writer: Sonya Spillmann

Music, Sound Design, Mix Engineer: Scott Vlahon

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0:00.0	I had built my version of my life. This is what I wanted. I had gone and gotten the education
0:07.6	that I wanted to get. I'd moved to the city that I wanted to. I was working in the career that I wanted to.
0:15.2	Almost all of us grow up with some idea of what life will look like when we get older, whether we get it from our parents,
0:22.0	our culture, or our communities. How many of us thought we'd become a wife and a mother somewhere
0:27.6	along the way to our dream of being a vet or an author or a marine biologist? When we get older,
0:34.4	our dreams change. We become more realistic, more practical,
0:38.5	and sometimes more determined.
0:40.8	So what happens when our vision of the future
0:43.1	starts to rub up against reality?
0:45.7	What do we do when a deeper calling conflicts
0:48.2	with the life we always wanted,
0:50.2	the life we actually love?
0:52.2	My version of my life wasn't working.
0:56.0	And that was the moment that God started taking apart, my version of my life, piece by piece.
1:03.5	From Coffee and Crumbs, I'm Julie Valon, and you're listening to Making a Mother,
1:09.0	a collection of stories about the complex circumstances
1:11.9	and unique challenges women overcome in the pursuit of motherhood. From the physical scars
1:18.2	left on our bodies to the emotional scars that remain on our hearts, this series is about
1:24.0	heartache and love, broken dreams and resilience, loss, and redemption.
1:30.7	Motherhood remakes us all, but at what cost?
1:34.0	What would you be willing to endure to become a mother?
1:41.6	In this episode, we're introducing you to Faith.
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