Choosing Love in the Unknown: Allison Harris on Foster Care, Disability, and Gianna's Story

What happens when a single phone call changes the shape of your family forever? In this episode of Moms Like Me, Jordan sits down with Allison Harris, a mom of three boys whose family said yes to an emergency foster placement for a four-month-old baby girl named Gianna. What began with only a few known details — 'she's blind, and she needs a home right away' — became a powerful story of adoption, medical complexity, shaken baby syndrome, epilepsy, disability, faith, community, and learning how to love a child without needing to know exactly what the future holds. Allison shares the honest reality of becoming a foster family, the emotional weight of saying yes, the unexpected beauty Gianna brought into their home, and how her sons, husband, church, friends, and broader community learned to show up in ways that changed all of them. This conversation is about more than foster care or special needs parenting — it's about presence, inclusion, motherhood, and the life-changing power of simply seeing a child as fully enough, exactly as they are.