Mom, Wilda, along with her late husband, Randy, provided foster care for children in the state of Oregon from 1987-2002. She parented 100 children, many with special needs including drug and alcohol exposure, cleft lip/palate, feeding issues, failure to thrive, mental health issues, neurological disorders, language dyspraxia and more. She also worked for the State of Oregon Services to Children and Families where she interacted daily with foster children and their foster/adopt and bio parents. (Four of her 7 children were adopted through the foster care system and one was a private domestic adoption).